Fretwork

E 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 EF#GABCD#
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#GABCD#EF#GABCD#EF#GABCD#EF#GABCD#EGABCD#EF#GABCD#EF#GABCEF#GABCD#EF#G
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

135EADGBEEF#GAABCD#EF#GGABCBCD#EEF#GA

Position at fret 6

7912EADGBEBCD#D#EF#GABCD#EF#F#GABCD#

Position at fret 11

121517EADGBED#EF#GABCD#EF#F#GABBCD#D#EF#G

Other keys