G# Scales on Mountain Dulcimer

Every scale and mode rooted on G# that the Mountain Dulcimer's frets can play. Its fretboard is diatonic, so a scale appears here only when every one of its notes has a fret on some string — the rest of the scale vocabulary needs frets this instrument does not have. Each comes with fretboard diagrams, the scale notes, and the intervals that define it.

On a diatonic fretboard the same pattern does not transpose: every key sits on its own set of frets, so learn each scale where it lies. Tie every scale back to the chords it fits so your practice connects directly to playing real music rather than running patterns in a vacuum.