Hi, hb ... you may find it reassuring to know that even though I spelled all those modes out for you in the scale-clock post, I have never, ever, consciously thought about or followed any modes in all my years of playing. If you're thinking chords and melody, they take care of themselves. The study of chords
is really the study of modes, so my advice, as always, is to put your time and energy into chords.
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If I interpret Kirk correctly, his theory of semi-tone between the 3 & 4 and the 7 & 1 is all that is needed.
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I don't think I've ever made out it's
that simple, hb. That's just the best way to remember the major scale, but, as you know, I'm not a scale thinker. The reason you should
really know that one scale is that everything in music comes from it and everything can be compared to it.