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Carry On...</p>    </div>    </td>  </tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"53740\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=11d637ac270dda762da961e59f199d9c&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=32\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Okay, I give.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           An American Karol | <a href=\"http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-N1E1qYo6aKF.GczOWVCN9w--;_ylt=AqRccL0vt\" title=\"http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-N1E1qYo6aKF.GczOWVCN9w--;_ylt=AqRccL0vt\">Homepage</a> | 01.06.09 - 10:14 pm | <a href=\"#53740\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"53804\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=f9d82f53729e615d2c72de95c356efe3&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=32\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />I really wish I had some musical training so I could get it when you throw down the theory.<br><br>Wait, it's a trick question: they're both Russian, right?<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Randal Graves | <a href=\"http://lennui-melodieux.blogspot.com\" title=\"http://lennui-melodieux.blogspot.com\">Homepage</a> | 01.07.09 - 11:54 am | <a href=\"#53804\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"54209\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=406a229a5da0dbf03ecdaf63ee4cd86a&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=32\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Then there's the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=EkTpUxh8Vxc\">Simpson's Theme/Star Trek Theme mashup</a>. <br><br>Chekov was Russian Randal, but Sulu wasn't. Not that that explains anything. <img src=\"http://www.haloscan.com/images/smileys/clin_oeil.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"15\" height=\"15\" /><br><br>To my mind modal scales are just major scales that start on a note other than Do. Re to Re is called Dorian, Mi to Mi is Phrygian etc. - the names come from regions of ancient Greece. A blues scale is pretty much Mixolydian, a major scale with a flatted (dominant) seventh. And to be completely honest the Ionian mode IS the scale Do to Do, by it usually isn't called that.<br><br><a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_mode' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus...ki/Musical_mode</a><br><br /><span class=\"byline\">           SadButTrue, size 9½ | <a href=\"http://unrulymob.blogspot.com\" title=\"http://unrulymob.blogspot.com\">Homepage</a> | 01.10.09 - 1:16 pm | <a href=\"#54209\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"54284\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=5fc11448dda28239a60d935cbd895c43&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=32\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />i wish i knew something about music theory<br /><span class=\"byline\">           distributorcap | <a href=\"http://distributorcapny.blogspot.com/\" title=\"http://distributorcapny.blogspot.com/\">Homepage</a> | 01.11.09 - 8:58 am | <a href=\"#54284\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"55062\"></a>        <p><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=14b39f28be7d73395cfc531f996533b7&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=32\" alt=\"Gravatar\" title=\"Gravatar\" style=\"padding: 1px; margin: 2px; float: right;\" class=\"gravatar\" />Did Prokofiev like donuts, too? Who wudda thunk it? 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