Guitar Fills With D# Persian

D# Persian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's EADGBE fretboard with every D# marked, because what a fill needs mid-song is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes 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.

A guitar fill is a flatpicked line, and it lives closest to the vocal melody of any chair in the arrangement — the scale is what fills the bar where the melody is only a long note.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a song in D# and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.