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Originally Posted by spastic
My main point was that the Iraqi scale "Lami" that you were talking about is the same as the locrian mode. I know the difference between modes.
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But in the context of that "Lami" scale, Western diatonic modes are irrelevant. Playing a Locrian scale is like playing the seventh mode of a diatonic major scale. Playing a Lami scale, even though it's all the same notes and intervals, it's fundamentally different, because to successfully use a foreign scale such as the Lami, you have to completely forget about diatonic scales and modes.
In Iraqi/Arabic music, the Lami would be its own independent scale, and to truly adopt the Lami scale, you would also have to think of it as independent of any relative mode or Western scale.