modes yola "The new earth and the new heaven come like the two modes of knowledge, knowledge being the chief art of love, as love is the chief art of knowledge." 000531 ... lost meaningfull yet so meaningless. 010425 ... unhinged dorian aeolian lydian mixolydian ionian 010425 ... Casey I disagree with lost. Nothing in this world is meaningless. If someone is good, wise, and couragous enough to say something, then it is never meaningless. More like it is like gold and should be praised. 010425 ... god kind of blue 010425 ... unhinged phrygian 010426 ... unhinged plagal locrian 011126 ... andru235 ionian and aolian acquired the endorsement of kings dorian and phrygian elicit sonic mystic rings everyone accepts the lydian as being quite in style and mixolydian, as well has been loved for quite a while and then there is the queer, odd duck the locrian, quite hidden away my friends, in case you have not noticed the forgotten mode dost guard the gay! 041228 ... god all this talk about modes is cool. i learned about modes through reading books on jazz improvisation. thusly, i think of modes in relation to the major scale. take a "c" major scale, for instance... start on the first degree of the c major scale (a "c", of course) and you get a c ionian scale. start on the second degree (d), you get a d dorian. start on the third degree (e), you get an e phrygian. start on the fourth degree (f), you get an f lydian. start on the fifth degree (g), you get a g mixolydian. start on the sixth degree (a), you get an a aeolian. start on the 7th degree (b), you get a b locrian scale. a more musical approach would be to learn the intervals that make up each mode, but this might be a good way to get folks who can play a major scale to think modally. 050929 what's it to you? who go blather from