If you look up the definition of music modes, you'll usually find something rather complicated, so let's try to make this easy- Imagine playing a Bb Major scale, but, instead of starting and ending on Bb, you start and end on C- the second note of the Bb Major scale. You would play C-D-Eb-F-G-A-Bb-C. Because the scale starts and ends on C, it is a type of C scale. If you started and ended on the third note of the Bb Major scale, you would play D-Eb-F-G-A-Bb-C-D. Because the scale starts and ends on D, it is a type of D scale. We call these type of scales modes.

The video below shows how each mode relates to the Major scale that has the same key signature. This is the only time the two will be compared. Everything else you see will be based on taking the major scale for the first note of the mode and making specific adjustments to it so that the mode is created. Click on the button of the scale/mode you want to work on, and, just like we did for the minor scales, you'll find a lesson on that mode's adjustment, as well as play-alongs of each scale.