I just *do not* understand how modes relate to actually playing music. I'm reading this https://liveukulele.com/lessons/theory/modes-on-the-ukulele/ and it talks about how you "end" or "start" on this or that note and that makes it in one mode or another...? I start on whatever note I start on and I don't just play notes in a given order. It really feels like there's some fundamental disconnect between how I think of playing and how music theorists want to describe it
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@2ck the key for me is chord theory. Like you say, thinking of notes seems meaningless. But for a chord progression there is a tonic and other chords and their major/minor/augmented/diminished nature will be driven by the mode. Harmony is much easier for me to understand practically than pure scale/mode theory.