Originally Posted By: Bass Thumper
Aeolian? Dorian?


Nothing more than adjusting where the half steps and whole steps are in a scale.

Thus, learn your theory.

Aeolian is just a minor scale. Dorian is a variation of a minor scale.

Any root chord has a relative 6th that is minor and shares the same notes, but the W and H are in different places.

C major and A minor have the same notes. Until you know what major and minor are though, that means nothing.

Start with WWHWWWH. That is the way to remember the steps of a major scale. (But to know that, you have to know half steps and whole steps. See how it spirals quickly?)



You should have been at the rehearsal when an old band was playing Bowie's "Let's Dance". The bass player, non reading, non "music knowing" kept asking "Where does it go to the B?" After 4 times I went ballistic and screamed at him "It NEVER goes to a B. It goes to a B FLAT!!! The key the song is in! There is NEVER a B anywhere in this song. There is no B in the key of B flat! Take a music lesson so you don't sound so stupid."

That didn't go over well.

At all.

But for all the things I am, tactful is not one of them.