F Dorian — Charango

Here is F Dorian across the neck, home lit at every occurrence, ready to strum and hear.

F Dorian is 7 notes to the octave (modes family), drawn here across the Charango's GCEAE courses with every F marked, so home stays visible from anywhere in the pattern.

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.

Five courses tuned GCEAE spread a scale wide for a strumming instrument: two courses share the same pitch class an octave apart, so a run can cross the twin E and land on the same note it just left. These maps mark every root so a line never loses home mid-course.

Practise it as a shape the whole hand crosses, not a ladder one finger climbs: pick four of its notes, rake them as a two-bar phrase against a slow pulse, then slide the same phrase to the next position. That is how this instrument actually uses a scale — raw material for a strummed line.