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By Gawkman at January 10th 2002, 12:00 PM - 2 Comments It is good. Well, for those who didn't notice, Kayn changed the layout on Pluh just a tad, take away some extra, and making it generally more pleasing to the eye. Plus, when we put up reviews, you don't have READ anymore to find a review, you can just click on pictures! Yep, the longer you work on a website, the more ways you find to not make it suck. I'm not sure what else to say, but I do have a good caffeine buzz going, so I think I will take the time to lecture on the differenences between music scale modes. You can ignore the rest of this post if you wish, it's mainly gibberish. First, you have major mode, which is your most basic scale. Then you minor mode, which is taking a major scale, and lowering the 3rd, 6th, and 7th notes down a half-step. Then there's mixolydian mode, which is like major mode, except that you flat the 7th note of the scale. This is used in jazz a lot. Then you have harmonic minor, which is minor mode but without a flat 7th, so that you have a leading tone back to tonic. Then there's melodic minor, which is like a major and minor hybrid... the 3rd is flatted so it starts out sounding like minor, but the 6th and 7th are left unflatted, so that you don't have that "Egyptian" sound between the 6th and 7th like you do in harmonic minor, so it ends up sounding like a major scale. Then there's Phrygian, which is just like pure minor, except that you bring the 2nd down a half step as well. Then there's...