C# Phrygian — Dobro

C# Phrygian 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.

Very dark minor with a half-step above the tonic. Spanish, Flamenco, and metal flavor — exotic, tense, and mysterious.

Heard in: Flamenco, metal, dark film scores — Carlos Santana solos, Joe Satriani's "War", Moorish and Andalusian 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.