D# Persian, Banjo Side

7 notes to the octave, mapped below onto this reader's GDGBD fretboard, with every D# called out. Those markers are the useful part mid-bar: a chart moves under you, and the thing you need is where the root went — not where the pattern started.

Intensely exotic — two half-step clusters (b2 against the root, b5 against the 4) and a raised 7th make it the most dramatic of the world scales. Mysterious, ornate, and tense.

Heard in: Persian and Middle-Eastern-flavored melodies, film scoring for desert and ancient settings, and exotic metal and progressive-rock riffs.

A pattern that never stops still has to be made of notes, and the ones it is made of are chosen from this set the moment the written number changes under it.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a chart counted in D# and let the numbers pick their own notes out of it.