[monk]

This is my fractured understanding of modes and tonal music:

Tonal music is all western music.

Modal music is music built on modal chord progressions

Western music uses just the two modes (Ionian and Aeolian) because they make the "best" chord progressions.

The easiest way to improvise starting out is using chord tones.

To make your improvisation more interesting, you can use modal scales.

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Regards,
Monk