Guitar Fills With D# Rock 'n' Roll

D# Rock 'n' Roll runs 6 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.

Major pentatonic with a b3 rubbed against the natural 3 — bright and bouncy with a bluesy smirk. Playful, swinging, and built for boogie riffs.

Heard in: Fifties rock, rockabilly, boogie-woogie, Chuck Berry-style riffs, and jump blues.

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.