D Mixolydian Funky Groove Backing Track 

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Hi there! Well, Dorian and Mixolydian modes are very similar except for one note/interval: The 3rd. Mixolydian has 3, but Dorian has b3. In this case 3 is F#, and b3 is F. Depends on what you've been playing, "Dorian" will "fit", but this is really a one dom7th chord vamp, so Mixolydian would be the "right" scale. Hope that helps, and thanks for watching/playing!

It really is D Mixolydian, however, if you’re more comfortable visualizing the fretboard in Dorian, you could play thinking in A Dorian, which would give you all the same notes as D Mixolydian, because the parent key for deriving both of those specific modes is G. Then you just need to adjust your ear to hear it as D Mixolydian to help you phrase things.

Oh! You know what else also occurred to me. Mixolydian is a very bluesy mode, so if you were playing the flat or minor third (i.e., the “blue note”) it will work just fine, but you can open up your world of Mixolydian by incorporating both into your playing. You can play that A Dorian I was talking about (or just D Mixolydian if you either are or become familiarized with it), or a D blues scale or minor pentatonic, (or even major pentatonic, though my point is to highlight the use of the m3/#9 as a functionally valid sonority to justify your conclusion that this could be Dorian).