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If someone wants to play in Phrygian mode on F#, do they have to calculate in their head where all the notes would be, or do they generally memorize that beforehand? It would be annoying to memorize every combination of mode and tonic.
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do you memorize every degree angle you have to turn your steering wheel on the way to work?
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memorize the pattern
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at first its calculation and a bit of memorization, then as you keep practicing it comes to you naturally, which in that sense is having it memorized. Most of the time, modes of one home note are simply seen as scales of other notes, so when you say c ionian and c aeolian, most people use c major and c minor instead, c dorian is g minor, etc
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Rika_Furude posted...

do you memorize every degree angle you have to turn your steering wheel on the way to work?

No, for each time I turn the wheel, I memorize:

*The number of degrees I turn the wheel
*The time at which I turn the wheel
*A function representing the intensity curve of the wheel turn so that I can turn quickly or slowly

I have to do a lot of math while driving, and it's usually distracting.
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You start memorizing patterns and key signatures.

From there it's not hard to figure out where to go.

HashtagTartarus posted...

Rika_Furude posted...

do you memorize every degree angle you have to turn your steering wheel on the way to work?

No, for each time I turn the wheel, I memorize:

*The number of degrees I turn the wheel
*The time at which I turn the wheel
*A function representing the intensity curve of the wheel turn so that I can turn quickly or slowly

I have to do a lot of math while driving, and it's usually distracting.

On second thought you probably shouldn't be driving let alone trying to learn an instrument or music theory
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