D Phrygian, Resonator Side

7 notes to the octave, mapped below onto this reader's GBDGBD neck, 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.

Very dark minor with a half-step above the tonic. Spanish, Flamenco, and metal flavor — exotic, tense, and mysterious.

Heard in: Flamenco, metal, dark film scores — Carlos Santana solos, Joe Satriani's "War", Moorish and Andalusian music.

The open tuning gives three of these notes for free; the rest are reached by moving the bar, which is why a player looks at where the scale lies rather than which grips it contains.

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.