Jazz piano improvisation exercise - dorian mode

In this video I introduce dorian mode and demonstrate an exercise that can help you get used to its sound when incorporating it into jazz and blues piano playing and improvisation. When learning to play the piano, we normally use simple major and minor scales. A mode is just a particular type of scale. For example, dorian mode is almost identical to a minor scale, except that the minor sixth is replaced with a major sixth. Dorian mode is useful because it creates an in