Originally Posted by: SnowRoseIs that kind of like the Blues Scale? Pentatonic I mean.
And isn't dorian from Minor and major?
No. Blues scales are 6 note scales, pentatonics are 5 notes. They're very similar though. The only difference between the minor blues and the minor pentatonic is the diminished 5th shows up. And the difference between the minor blues and the major blues is the minor 7th becomes a major 6th.
In other words:
Major pentatonic:
w w 1-1/2 w 1-1/2
Minor pentatonic
1-1/2 w w 1-1/2 w
Major blues
1-1/2 w h h w 1-1/2
Minor blues
1-1/2 w h h 1-1/2 w
Editor's note: This is stuff I should've added in when I initially made this post. The thing about dorian. Yes, Dorian is involved in major and minor scales. The major scale itself is the Ionian mode. Dorian is just the next mode in line. So if we're playing in C Major (C D E F G A B) then Dorian would start on D. The minor scale is Aeolian, which is the second to last mode in the scale. In this case that's A.
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