Another good idea shot to hell, old sport. The problem is that everyone piped in with their pet chord/scale/theory thing, including(god knows why) a lesson on playing the piano, and anyone followed what you said in your first post, was totally confused by the time they finished Jeri's post, and it went downhill from there.

There are simple answers to each of these questions, but answering all of them, and tying the answers that come up in a thread together so that they make simple sense is impossible--if you don't believe me, read every thread about modes--

The only possible way out of this problem is if one person talks and everyone else listens, but this is the internet, and that ain't a gonna happen--