Modes of the diatonic scale?
Just trying to wrap my head around this. Seems it should be simple but I feel I am missing something.
So our diatonic scale would be, W W H W W W H, correct? Then repeat. The scale would be the root you start on? The mode would be where you start in the wwhwwwh progression?
So Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian, would always be named at the same starting point in the W W H W W W H irregardless of what scale you are playing? Be it A B C etc? Have I confused some terms perhaps?
So, if we are in the G Scale and start on the first W note of W W H W W W H it would be G Ionian? But if we start on the fifth note it would be, G A B C D E F#, G Mixolydian?
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