Fretwork

F# 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 F#G#ABC#DF
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#ABC#DFF#ABC#DFF#G#ABDFF#G#ABC#DFG#ABC#DFF#G#ABC#DFF#G#ABC#DFF#G#ABC#DFF#
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 1

1357EADGBEFF#G#ABC#DFF#G#G#ABC#C#DFFF#G#A

Position at fret 8

912EADGBEC#DFFF#G#ABC#DFF#G#G#ABC#DF

Other keys