Originally Posted by: buckethead14im really sorry about this..i kinda got that....so on a c major scale....taking the scond note of the c major scale and playing the c major shaped would be d dorian....d major would be a diffferent shape

As Magicninja says, each mode has it's own shape.... BUT....

If you played the C Major scale, but missed the first note (C) and started on the second (D) and played it up an extra note, you would be playing D Dorian. It's the intervals that make the mode, the notes are the same in G Ionian, A Dorian, B Phrygian etc etc