Nigel Gatherer wrote: >In my humble opinion, you do not need to know anything about modes in >order to use them in real life music.
I could not agree more on this point. >It's interesting to analyse music but _not_ >knowing why we play certain things in certain ways doesn't _prevent_ us >from making music. I agree again, but surely the more informed you are on the subject the better armed you are to tackle tunes based on modes. I am coming from the perspective of having to jam on stage, as I have often had to do, and so would enable me to read where the tune is going much faster if instantly recognised as modal. Jim Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
