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But it is a good way to start your improvisational journey, and when it comes to bluegrass singing songs, which is where I generally use it as an improvisational starting point, you’ll only rarely run up against modal songs. Sometimes I even hesitate to use the pentatonic scale because I don’t want to make it too formal. My best advice is that when you spot a tune that has a sort of “modal” quality to it, just avoid the 3 note of the scale and use your ear, rather than trying to follow the rules. Some tunes just have flatted or sharped notes based on what the tunesmith felt sounded good in that moment, (And sometimes those accidentals even change at different points in the tune!) so it becomes difficult to adapt any consistent scale labeling to them. When we come along later and try to overlay the rules of classical music onto these tunes we sort of miss the point. These tunes were generally written by people who don’t adhere to rules of scales and were not trained in that way. Most of the tunes that qualify as “modal” don’t even really fit into one particular mode, as they’re defined in classical music. When we deal with traditional music, we generally avoid labeling tunes in terms of specific modes. But the answer isn’t exactly what you might think. Hey Michael! Not a stupid question at all. Take your fiddle playing to the next level today!!

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