Originally Posted by: kill em allThanks, I think I get it now. Somehow an actual person has more teaching power than the "guitar handbook". So if I took the Cmajor scale and put the appropriate intervals between notes for Dorian mode (tone,semi-tone,tone,tone,tone,semi-tone,tone) I would be playing in Dorian mode rather than fooling with the Cmajor scale?

You got it. All you'd have to do is sharp the IV anyhow (F#).