D Locrian — Dobro

D Locrian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's GBDGBD neck with every D marked, because what you need mid-break is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under you. D is one of the four keys a circle calls, so this one comes up.

The most dissonant, unstable mode — the tonic chord is diminished (b5), making a true Locrian tonal center rare. Used for color and passing harmony.

Heard in: Metal riffs, jazz (half-diminished ø7 chords in ii°7 – V – i), horror and tension film scores.

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 D and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.