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A mode is simply another name for a scale, although the term is normally designated for more obscure scales. Let's look at A major. The A major scale has these notes: A B C# D E F# G# Another scale would be the one below, but because it's a scale that is based upon another scale, it is called a "mode." Here's the "B Dorian mode": B C# D E F# G# A The notes are the same as the A major example, but the intervals between the notes are different. Jazz often employs Dorian modes and rock sometimes uses Mixolydian modes. There are countless modes, some used more often than others.
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Using the scale above, if you played the same notes but started on the F# you would be playing a minor scale. F# minor is the Aeolian mode of A. Whenever you play a minor scale you are just playing the major scale notes starting somewhere else. But then you have relative and harmonic minor which gets a little more tricky.
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