Strangest Sounding Mode Poll

[lowendfriend]

Alright folks....just have been learning modes and I thouight I'd see if my reaction to their sound was common.

What do you think is the strangest sounding mode?

[Tom Servo]

Locrian, because it just doesn't resolve anywhere in its natural form.

I like the Lydian mode. Some folks think it's the "purest" of scales because of the sequence of ascending 5ths. In traditional music, it wants very badly to resolve to the dominant, but in modern stuff, it's quite nice in context.

[aikakone]

I also voted Locrian as it sounds like Ionian that decided not to finish.

[ugly_bassplayer]

carrots

[JtheJazzMan]

carrots b9 #11

[ugly_bassplayer]

Originally Posted by JtheJazzMan

carrots b9 #11

I stand corrected.......

[Jaydin Nathan]

Have you heard the names of some of the bepop scale modes? They're ridiculous! Imagine what they sound like..

- Mixodorian b9 Bebop Scale
- Altered Quartal Bebop Scale
- Double Dorian Bebop Scale
- Lydydian Augmented Bebop Scale
- Phrygiolocrian
- Lydiocrian

They're all on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop_scale

[EADG mx]

Originally Posted by TheJaydin

Have you heard the names of some of the bepop scale modes? They're ridiculous! Imagine what they sound like..

- Mixodorian b9 Bebop Scale
- Altered Quartal Bebop Scale
- Double Dorian Bebop Scale
- Lydydian Augmented Bebop Scale
- Phrygiolocrian
- Lydiocrian

They're all on here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop_scale

Here's a question: where is all of that info coming from? I've never heard of those modes, or of anyone even thinking of the bebop scales in terms of modes in my life.

[73jbass]

I prefer Nickalodian.

[Jaydin Nathan]

Originally Posted by EADG mx

Here's a question: where is all of that info coming from? I've never heard of those modes, or of anyone even thinking of the bebop scales in terms of modes in my life.

Wow don't get angry man, I was just referring to the odd names of some modes. And if there's a scale, at least one person has thought of it as a mode

[HaVIC5]

The point is, you can come up with any name for any scale if you feel like it. I can do it, and it can sound very convincing, for example, from this point on the 8-note pitch collection 1 b2 b3 3 b5 b6 6 b7 shall be known as diminished superlocrian. It's rather irrelevant what the name is.

Another point is that the entire concept of the "bebop scale" is a very synthetic one, and is only generated from a chromatic passing tone technique/melodic pattern that was codified in a highly quantified "scale" form by David Baker in the 1970's. He just came up with a couple scale names to describe these chromatic passing techniques, then people went bonkers coming with names of other scales and modes of those scales, completely missing the purpose of the whole method.

[EADG mx]

Originally Posted by TheJaydin

Wow don't get angry man, I was just referring to the odd names of some modes. And if there's a scale, at least one person has thought of it as a mode

Not angry, just curious.

Originally Posted by HaVIC5

The point is, you can come up with any name for any scale if you feel like it. I can do it, and it can sound very convincing, for example, from this point on the 8-note pitch collection 1 b2 b3 3 b5 b6 6 b7 shall be known as diminished superlocrian. It's rather irrelevant what the name is.

Another point is that the entire concept of the "bebop scale" is a very synthetic one, and is only generated from a chromatic passing tone technique/melodic pattern that was codified in a highly quantified "scale" form by David Baker in the 1970's. He just came up with a couple scale names to describe these chromatic passing techniques, then people went bonkers coming with names of other scales and modes of those scales, completely missing the purpose of the whole method.

This is why I ask - arranging the bebop scales in terms of modes does seem like defeating the purpose. The same reason there are no modes of the blues scale, for example.

On topic as not to derail, I'm going to go with Locrian.