F# Gypsy Minor — Dobro

F# Gypsy 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.

Harmonic minor with a raised 4th — two wide, yearning steps (b3 to #4, b6 to 7) give it a smoldering, theatrical intensity. Dark, exotic, and full of drama.

Heard in: Hungarian and Romani folk, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies, gypsy jazz, klezmer, and neoclassical metal.

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.