Hello everyone! Wondering what the Ionian mode is or how to use it when composing? You've come to the right place! (And if you'd like to listen to a podcast on this topic, you can find it here .) This is a basic but complicated part of music theory, so hold on tight. A mode, as defined by a search on wikipedia , is: "a set of musical notes forming a scale and from which melodies and harmonies are constructed." In my own words, a mode is a musical scale that's built based on c