Aeolian, locrian, mixylodian... I understand the basic theory that it all relates to:
Do re mi fa so la ti Do (with scale degrees)

And that it goes a semitone up with each mode and thats why you have to learn them in order, but does anyone know a website which can explain them to me in more detail as I want to know them for improvising.

Thanks a bunch
~Scarlett

Sorry I don`t know websites off hand, but a CD you need to pick up (everyone listening to jazz should have this CD) is "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis. The song "So What" is in Dorian and I believe "Freddie Freeloader" is Mixolydian. To make a long story short the whole recording was an experiment with modal Jazz. This way you can listen to John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderly improvise over those modes, that should help you get some ideas.

Later

The content at http://www.saxmaniax.com is growing fast in this area for all the scales and such, and chords, jazz/blues scales and an area in improvising (nothing there yet - just a blank page but it popped up the other day).

From the main page select "transposing, scales, key signatures" or something like that.

There`s also a new yahoo group called "Jazz_Improvisation" from the same guy(s) at saxmaniax.com it`s brand, brand new and content is just starting to be put on there too.

hope that helps.

I don`t. where can I learn what a mode is?

Thanks temp, it didn`t really help much but it`s a good website. I`ll just ask my sax teacher *sigh*, he`s like eighty and goes into depth about EVERY single little thing I ask. Lol meh, thanks anyways.

The modes are commonly found in old church music, if I remember right. They are not common in jazz music at all.