Theory for Thought

When I bought Walt Weiskopf's book Around the Horn, it totally changed the way I thought about scales. I just pulled it out again the other day to go through some of the etudes in the back, when I realized there's sort of two ways to think about scales(at least in my convoluted mind). One way is to think of the scale, and every step that is lowered or raised from a major scale. The other way would be how the book presented it. All scales are based off of the major, melodic(jazz) minor, and harmonic minor scales. You can start from the second step of a major scale and play the dorian minor scale. Every step from all three of these three basic scales has it's own. So what I noticed the other day, is that I've blended these two methods. There's still scales where I think 'Ok, b3 and b7', or 'half step whole step half step whole step', yet others I think to myself 'start on the 7th mode of the major scale'. So I was just curious as to how everyone else organizes all of this madness in their minds. One thing I've learned is a tend to think in different ways that most, and it's always interesting to hear other people's thought processes.

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