Even if you're playing modal jazz, modes are just scales. Indeed; all I meant was that in modal jazz we might want to consider the mode to be somethi...

Perhaps the best way to understand modes (at least for me) is to think about them like scales. I agree. Unless you're playing music where the mode ha...

...and both of these pentatonics can also be thought of as Major Scale modes you (presumably) already know with two notes dropped out:1 2 3 5 b7 = Mix...

I like to teach students to add the major 3, b5 or major 7 to the common minor pentatonic. I don't really teach these as separate scales, although a l...