I just *do not* understand how modes relate to actually playing music. I'm reading this https://liveukulele.com/lessons/theory/modes-on-the-ukulele/ and it talks about how you "end" or "start" on this or that note and that makes it in one mode or another...? I start on whatever note I start on and I don't just play notes in a given order. It really feels like there's some fundamental disconnect between how I think of playing and how music theorists want to describe it
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@2ck this really helped me: https://youtu.be/8z_MwotLh1M
@Stoneymonster thanks. that actually does help a bit. I still have a lot to learn when it comes to chord progressions though: really I just don't know many chords
@2ck yeah that was always the hurdle for me with stringed instruments. Just takes time unfortunately.
@2ck try focusing on one mode first and get familiar; Iโd suggest Dorian (2nd); if you were playing c maj [CDEFGAB] you would just start on the 2nd note of that scale and play til you get back to it again [DEFGABC] otherwise known as D Dorian
thereโs a lot of โjam tracksโ on YouTube that let you get loose on em ///
If you have questions or are making headway, feel free to hmu! Iโm studying the same thing right now and have no one to bother about it LOL
Hope this helps ๐ค
@2ck the key for me is chord theory. Like you say, thinking of notes seems meaningless. But for a chord progression there is a tonic and other chords and their major/minor/augmented/diminished nature will be driven by the mode. Harmony is much easier for me to understand practically than pure scale/mode theory.