C Aeolian Scale on Greek Bouzouki

Play the C Aeolian scale on Greek Bouzouki with fretboard diagrams that map the pattern across the neck. The Aeolian scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the modes family.

C is available as an open course on Greek Bouzouki, and 3 of its 4 open courses are scale tones — C (the root), F (the 4th), D (the 2nd). The A string sits outside the scale. Open, the courses cover C3 to D4.

Same as Natural Minor.

The standard natural minor scale — melancholic, introspective, and deeply emotive. The most common minor sound in Western music.

Heard in: Pop, rock, classical, metal — the default minor sound of Western music.

Greek Bouzouki is tuned C–F–A–D, with 15 frets to work with. Voicings are computed for this tuning by the shared voicing generator, not borrowed from another instrument; each course is charted at its fundamental, so the octave strings on the two lower courses are not drawn.

Each position shows the scale notes and their intervals from the root so you can connect the shape to its sound, hear it with audio playback, and practice it in any register. Movable patterns let you transpose the same fingering to other keys once it is learned.

Once a position is under your fingers, link the C Aeolian scale to the chords it harmonizes and to progressions in the key of C to start improvising and writing with it. Working a scale alongside its chords is the fastest way to make it stick and to hear how it colors a progression.