Fretwork

C# 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 C#D#EF#G#AC
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.
135791215EADGBEEF#G#ACC#D#EF#ACC#D#EF#G#ACD#EF#G#ACC#D#EG#ACC#D#EF#G#ACC#D#EF#G#ACC#EF#G#ACC#D#EF#
Positions

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

Position at fret 3

3579EADGBEG#ACCC#D#EF#G#ACC#D#D#EF#G#AC

Position at fret 8

912EADGBECC#D#EF#G#ACC#D#D#EF#G#G#ACCC#D#E

Other keys