C Major — Dobro

C Major runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's GBDGBD neck with every C marked, because what you need mid-break is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under you.

Bright, resolved, and stable. The foundation of Western tonal music and the most common mode in pop, classical, folk, and jazz.

Heard in: Pop, classical, country, folk, gospel — the default major tonality of Western music.

A dobro break is slid, not fretted: the bar travels to each note, so a scale here is a list of places the bar may stop on the way — and on open-G strings, the stops that ring against an open string are the ones the melody keeps coming back to.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a tune in C and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.