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I looking for new ideas to come up with melodies and got to thinking about trying to get a melody to modulate through a song or in certain parts to add emphasis. The problem I have is actually applying ideas with intent and purpose. The thing that's bothering me is that I understand how to invert chords to add flavor, I understand how to borrow chords from other scales and stay in the original key and changing keys seems pretty straight forward to me. However if you want to change modes during a song how can you be sure you've actually made a modal change and not a key change. In other words what is the reference that you base the "change" from? or do you have to establish a reference with a bass pedal or a repetitive progression? or can you make the change based solely on what was played previously? Thanks in advance for any help.