Originally Posted by: gennationYou are correct with the most common ways of explaining Intervals and the Major scale.

I'm not sure where Jolly was coming from with his answer, or his explanation.

I was coming from the land where you write scale tones relative to the scale to which they refer. If you know what the tones in a minor scale are, such as minor 3, minor 6, etc., then there is no reason to write the tones relative to the major scale.