Thanks Kirk...I'm starting to see what you mean. My confusion started on all this when once, and I think it was on this site, we were talking about the number of sharps and flats, or lack thereof on a piece of music determines what key the song is in and someone said that the key of A minor did not have any sharps or flats, and I thought to myself, how can that be, as music without any sharps or flats belongs to the key of C. I see now that the keys can sometimes share the same number of sharps and flats. Correct?????
In regards to the different modes you listed....should one ever need to memorize this or should I just remember that it's always a semitone between the III and IV and the VII and I. I have a sheet with the modes you listed that I practice, but I just do it to help me remember where notes like G# or Ab are on the fretboard. It's more of a note memory to me rather than a scale thing.
Thanks, hb
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