F Major Scale on Greek Bouzouki

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

Every open course on Greek Bouzouki belongs to F Major, F among them — C (the 5th), F (the root), A (the 3rd), D (the 6th). That makes ringing open notes a free voice under the line. Open, the courses cover C3 to D4.

It is also known as the Ionian scale.

Bright, resolved, and stable. The foundation of Western tonal music and the most common mode in pop, classical, folk, and jazz.

Heard in: Pop, classical, country, folk, gospel — the default major tonality 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 F Major scale to the chords it harmonizes and to progressions in the key of F 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.