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<span class="text"> [[Voice Leading]]</span>
<span class="text"> [[Modulation]]</span>
<span class="text"> [[Non-Diatonic Chords]]</span>
<span class="text current"> [[Modes]]</span>
<span class="text"> [[Exotic Scales]]</span>
<span class="text"> [[Solo'ing]]</span>
<span class="text"> [[Extended Chords]]</span>
<span class="text"> [[Odd-time Signatures|Odd-Time]]</span>
<span class="text"> [[Syncopation and Polyrhythm|Syncopation]]</span>
<span class="text"> [[Atonality and Serialism|Atonality]]</span>
<span class="text"> [[Equal Temperament and Alternate Tunings|Tuning Systems]]</span>
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''Modes'' are basically repurposed uses of existing scales by altering which note is used as the tonic. The most common mode is the Aeolian, which uses the 6th note of the major scale as its root. As we've already studied, this ''is'' the natural minor scale.