"By a modal song I mean one which starts on a note which is not the tonic of the scale."

A rather simplistic view, not usually correct...


"She still doesn't understand modes. She's convinced that they're at least as complex as quantum physics and she refuses to believe that if she'd just shut her mouth and listen, she could learn all about modes in about half an hour."

Ah Don - there's just so many of them out there...