A Spanish on Violin

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

Fiery and exotic — the b2 presses against the root while the major 3rd keeps it from sounding plainly minor. Flamenco heat with a Middle-Eastern edge: dramatic, urgent, and passionate.

Heard in: Flamenco and Spanish classical guitar, klezmer and "Hava Nagila", Arabic and Jewish liturgical music, metal riffs, and the V chord of harmonic minor.

The melody section plays written lines together, so a scale is section practice before it is anyone's vocabulary: several players putting the same pitch in the same place, with nothing on the neck to arbitrate.

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