The C major scale contains the notes A, B, C, D, E, F and G. In any order. The C ionian mode contains C, D, E, F, G, A, B in that order.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G do not make the C ionian mode re-arranged. They make the A aolian mode.
Modes have a specific tonic.
Question about scales
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- KVRAF
- 6519 posts since 13 Mar, 2002 from UK
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- KVRAF
- 1975 posts since 4 Feb, 2005
But if that were true then what you are suggesting is that the A minor scale is the same as the C major scale and this is not true (at least not by any definition I've ever heard)
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- KVRAF
- 6519 posts since 13 Mar, 2002 from UK
The A natural minor scale is the same as the C major scale.
Honest. I'm not making this stuff up to win an argument. At the moment this nit-picking about definitions is probably confirming all the bad things that the sceptics believe about theory. So I'm going to stop now, because It doesn't matter what you call a group of notes. It only matters that you know how to use that group of notes.
Honest. I'm not making this stuff up to win an argument. At the moment this nit-picking about definitions is probably confirming all the bad things that the sceptics believe about theory. So I'm going to stop now, because It doesn't matter what you call a group of notes. It only matters that you know how to use that group of notes.
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- KVRAF
- 1975 posts since 4 Feb, 2005
Sure enough.
I just don't know that I would say that the only difference between "A minor" and "C major" is the mode being used.
Terminology aside, though, I think the point has gotten across.
I just don't know that I would say that the only difference between "A minor" and "C major" is the mode being used.
Terminology aside, though, I think the point has gotten across.