Modes and Scales

Floyd222 · 02-04-2010, 05:53 PM

I've been learning about music theory, and there's one thing that is bugging me. A major scale in C for exemple has the following notes CDEFGAB, however a dorian D scale also has the same notes DEFGABC and aswell does the relative minor A, ABCDEFG (none having sharps or flats of course)... For each major scale there are 6 other modes that have the same notes. So my question is, what makes it so that we call a scale "Dorian" for exemple when it could just be called a major scale in another key.

02-04-2010, 05:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
Floyd222 Groupie Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 2	Modes and Scales I've been learning about music theory, and there's one thing that is bugging me. A major scale in C for exemple has the following notes CDEFGAB, however a dorian D scale also has the same notes DEFGABC and aswell does the relative minor A, ABCDEFG (none having sharps or flats of course)... For each major scale there are 6 other modes that have the same notes. So my question is, what makes it so that we call a scale "Dorian" for exemple when it could just be called a major scale in another key.