E9 Pedal Steel Fills With F Dorian

F Dorian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's E9 neck with every F 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 pedal steel fill is a line the bar and the pedals share: the bar comes to rest on a fret, and a pedal or lever raises a ringing string into the next note of the line, so a scale here marks the resting places and the notes a bend can reach from them.

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