Originally Posted by: lifeis@songok i think i looked up bad information somwhere else . is dorian minor the same thing as just plain dorian?

Yes that could be considered the same thing. But it's generally just called "Dorian" since dorian is a minor based scales. So you can just call it Dorian.

Depending on the context of the sentence though I could see Dorian and minor being next to each other. But Dorian is just Dorian, and Dorian is a minor sounding scale.

Hope that makes sense.