Fretwork

A# Harmonic minor

Natural minor with the seventh raised back up, leaving a step and a half between the sixth and seventh. That gap is the whole sound.

Notes A#CC#D#FF#A
Degrees 12♭345♭67
Intervals0 semitones · 2 semitones · 3 semitones · 5 semitones · 7 semitones · 8 semitones · 11 semitones
The whole neck
Note names Scale degrees Filled markers are the root.
135791215EADGBEFF#AA#CC#D#FF#AA#CC#D#FF#AA#CD#FF#AA#CC#D#FAA#CC#D#FF#AA#CC#D#FF#AA#CC#FF#AA#CC#D#FF#
Positions

Each of these fits under one hand without shifting. Learn one until you can play it without looking before starting the next.

Open position

135EADGBEFF#AAA#CC#D#FF#AA#CCC#D#FF#A

Position at fret 5

579EADGBEAA#CC#D#FF#AA#CCC#D#FFF#AAA#CC#

Other keys