C# Phrygian Scale on Vihuela

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

4 of Vihuela's 5 open strings belong to C# Phrygian: A (the flat 6th), D (the flat 2nd), B (the flat 7th), E (the flat 3rd). The G string falls outside it, and C# is not available open. Open, the strings cover A3 to G4.

Very dark minor with a half-step above the tonic. Spanish, Flamenco, and metal flavor — exotic, tense, and mysterious.

Heard in: Flamenco, metal, dark film scores — Carlos Santana solos, Joe Satriani's "War", Moorish and Andalusian music.

Vihuela is tuned A–D–G–B–E, with 12 frets to work with. Voicings are computed for this tuning by the shared voicing generator, not borrowed from another instrument; traditional mánico technique may still favor idiomatic shapes not charted here.

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# Phrygian scale to the chords it harmonizes and to progressions in the key of Db 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.