_tsidewinder_,
I apologise for taking so long to get back to you.
As I have stated in numerous other posts, I consider modes useful in a modal situation such as So What or Oye Como Va.
However, in a tonal situation with rapidly changing chords, I would focus on chords & function as well as chromaticism.
As bmurnahan pointed out with his example, if all the chords in a progression are in the same key and you approach each one as a mode, you're taking one thing and turning it into five things that are the same as the one thing. To me that's complicating things for no reason and it doesn't add contrast or variety.
Regards,
Monk
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