Sorry to beat the thread to death but OMG I just had a giant "click"!! I was going over some of Chris Schlegel's lessons, first learning to play the major scale 3 different ways on each root, so I started memorizing all the A notes.

Then I got into his lesson on inversions, and after learning the root, first, and 2nd inversion and memorizing A, C#, and E on the fret I started moving the chords around and noodling. Before, I spent so much time practicing the modes all over the neck, that now I "see" all the modes and can bounce around them at will, and into the pentatonic.

Before I couldn't recognize the different sounds of the modes except for the changed note, now I can definitely tell when I play the different intervals around the inversions.

Just wanted to say thanks again, and a big thanks to Mr. Schlegel for showing me the way. /salute