C Persian on Guitar

C Persian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is mapped onto this instrument's E–A–D–G–B–E fretboard with every C marked, because what a player needs mid-number is not the pattern but where the root is when the harmony moves under it.

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.

Scale work in the armonía is for the passing figure that joins one chord to the next — a few notes at the seam of a change, played by one member while the other keeps the pattern intact.

Take it slowly against the playback until the geometry stops being geometry, then put it under a number in C and let the written line pick its own notes out of it.