A# Ionian on Violin

A# Ionian 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.

Bright, resolved, and stable. The foundation of Western tonal music and the most common mode in pop, classical, folk, and jazz.

Heard in: Pop, classical, country, folk, gospel — the default major tonality of Western music.

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 Bb and let the written line pick its own notes out of it.