G# Natural Minor, Lap Steel Side

7 notes to the octave, mapped below onto this reader's CEGACE neck, with every G# 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 standard natural minor scale — melancholic, introspective, and deeply emotive. The most common minor sound in Western music.

Heard in: Pop, rock, classical, metal — the default minor sound of Western music.

With a bar instead of fingers, a scale is a set of stopping places rather than a set of grips, and the slide between two of them is as much of the line as either end.

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