Functional Mode

by Jay Skyler

For every note in a scale we have, theoretically, a mode. However in reality not all of these modes sound good and some are simply not ever used. Ones that get used in at least some contexts are known as functional modes, ones that aren't are non-functional modes. The Diatonic scale, for example, has seven functional modes, the Blues scale only two.

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