F# Harmonic Minor, Resonator Side

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

Dark and dramatic. The raised 7th pulls hard toward the tonic, and the wide step from the b6 up to it gives the scale an exotic, almost Middle-Eastern tension.

Heard in: Classical minor-key harmony, neoclassical metal (Yngwie Malmsteen), flamenco-tinged rock, klezmer, and Balkan melodies.

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