Mandolin Fills With G# Dorian

G# Dorian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's GDAE fretboard with every G# marked, because what a fill needs mid-song is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under it.

Minor with a raised 6th (natural 6) — soulful, smooth, and less dark than natural minor. The quintessential jazz-minor and blues mode.

Heard in: "So What" (Miles Davis), "Oye Como Va" (Santana), "Eleanor Rigby" (Beatles) — rock, blues, funk, jazz.

A mandolin fill is short and often tremolo-doubled, so the scale here is a source of two- and three-note runs between the vocal phrases, not a ladder to climb.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a song in G# and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.