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Originally Posted by RoMeRz So playing the modes of say a G, your going to end up playing G Major and G Minor, yes?
I understand Richards more than Jazzin's.
How come the C Major modes all start with different notes, but the G modes all start with G ? I would have thought no matter what mode it was, if it was G - it would need to start and end on G? Is it because Jazzin used a C Major rather than just a C ? |
The "C modes" *don't* all start with different notes, not really. Anything with a "C" in front of it is figured out with reference to C.
What Jazzin' was telling you was that if you take a scale that most people are probably familiar with, the major scale, and start at different points, you get different sequences of half and whole steps, and thus different modes.
Now here's the catch: the "dorian" that you get when you play the notes contained in a C scale in order from D to D is NOT a C dorian--it's a D dorian, because it's a distinct pattern of half and whole steps determined in reference to D. Similarly, the pattern you get when you use a C major scale but go from F to F is not C lydian, it's F lydian.
Now here's the second catch. It's easy to get confused by terminology, because the various modes Jazzin' listed--C ionian, D dorian, E phrygian, F lydian, G mixolydian, A aeolian, B locrian--are sometimes collectively referred to as the "modes of the C major scale." The reason is that they can easily be generated from the C major scale, and this is how they are often introduced to learners. However, again, they are *not* C modes: D dorian is a D mode, E phrygian an E mode, etc.
Here are the seven modes referenced to C:
C lydian: C D E F# G A B C
C ionian (major): C D E F G A B C
C mixolydian: C D E F G A Bb C
C dorian: C D Eb F G A Bb C
C aeolian: C D Eb F G Ab Bb C
C phrygian: C Db Eb F G Ab Bb C
C locrian: C Db Eb F Gb Ab Bb C
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