Ahhh...ok now I see what you were saying. That was a much better explanation for me. Thanx. I never looked at how they were that closely related. My way was just to start with a clean sheet when learning each scale, relating to me caused too much confusion. I never wanted to have to think of another scale to learn a new scale, even the relative minor and majors. I guess with a smooth transaction between scales, that works out nicely though. :)

Did you come up with that or did you learn it somewhere?