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 ABCDEFG#
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.
135791215EADGBEEFG#ABCDEFABCDEFG#ABCDEFG#ABCDEFG#ABCDEFG#ABCDEFG#ABCDEFG#ABCDEF
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

135EADGBEEFG#AABCDDEFG#ABCBCDEEFG#A

Position at fret 4

579EADGBEG#ABCDEFG#ABBCDEEFG#G#ABC

Position at fret 11

121517EADGBEEFG#G#ABCDEFG#ABBCDEFG#

Other keys