C Phrygian on Violin

C Phrygian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is mapped onto this instrument's G–D–A–E fingerboard 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.

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.

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