F# Persian Scale on Resonator Guitar

Play the F# Persian scale on Resonator Guitar with fretboard diagrams that map the pattern across the neck. The Persian scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the world family.

All 3 of Resonator Guitar's open strings fall inside F# Persian — G (the flat 2nd), B (the 4th), D (the flat 6th) — though F# itself has to be stopped. Open, the strings cover G2 to D4.

Intensely exotic — two half-step clusters (b2 against the root, b5 against the 4) and a raised 7th make it the most dramatic of the world scales. Mysterious, ornate, and tense.

Heard in: Persian and Middle-Eastern-flavored melodies, film scoring for desert and ancient settings, and exotic metal and progressive-rock riffs.

It has a metal cone instead of a soundboard, which is where the volume and the bark come from. Every position is a straight bar or a short declared slant over the open-G strings; a chord no bar shape spells is marked, not charted.

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# Persian 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.