C# Aeolian on Vihuela

C# Aeolian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is mapped onto this instrument's 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.

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.

The armonía is not a soloing section, so a scale here is diagnostic rather than melodic: it is how a player finds which tones a grip is actually putting in the air on a neck whose octaves do not run in order.

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