Fretwork

D# 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 D#FF#G#A#BD
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#G#A#BDD#FF#A#BDD#FF#G#A#BDD#FF#G#A#BDD#FG#A#BDD#FF#G#A#BDD#FF#G#A#BDFF#G#A#BDD#FF#
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 5

579EADGBEA#BDDD#FF#G#A#BDD#FFF#G#A#BD

Position at fret 10

1215EADGBEDD#FF#G#A#BDD#FFF#G#A#A#BDDD#FF#

Other keys