Originally Posted by: Jolly McJollyson thus it would still technically be a Cmajor scale. his guy seemed so confused as to what a key was vs. a scale, I think we may want to stay pretty basic.

If you want to think of patterns, then yes, you could also (in C for example) play the Am patterns or the D Dorian patterns or the E phrygian patterns and thus wouldn't really be playing these relative scales at all. But it does help, sometimes, to think of the patterns.

I wouldn`t say that if you play those scales then you are "technically" playing a "C major Scale".
Technically means that you are actually playing the "C major scale"

What I`m suggesting is playing others scales to attain a Virtual "C major scale"

I don`t know why you are infering that I think in scale patterns only.
When I`m analizing any music subject, I see the big picture, that is:
Standard notation, relative scales, compatibility, consonance, linear scales,
scale patterns, tablature, diagrams, intervals, etc.