E Locrian, Banjo Side

7 notes to the octave, mapped below onto this reader's GDGBD fretboard, with every E 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.

The most dissonant, unstable mode — the tonic chord is diminished (b5), making a true Locrian tonal center rare. Used for color and passing harmony.

Heard in: Metal riffs, jazz (half-diminished ø7 chords in ii°7 – V – i), horror and tension film scores.

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 E and let the numbers pick their own notes out of it.