With the corresponding major scale as the root of our modal explorations, the modes permutate from this root in the following order, using each subsequent ascending note from the corresponding major scale as its root as it metamorphoses: beginning with the Ionian (the major scale, pure and simple), the Dorian, the Phrygian, the Lydian, the Mixolydian, the Aeolian, and finally, the oft unloved, neglected and forgotten, Locrian mode.