F Melodic Minor — Dobro

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

Minor at the bottom, major at the top — the b3 keeps it minor while the natural 6 and 7 lift the upper half into a smooth climb home. Bittersweet rather than dark, with a polished, modern-jazz sheen.

Heard in: Jazz lines over minor and altered chords, film scoring, and classical melodies rising to the tonic — Bach, Mozart, and bebop alike.

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