Mandolin Fills With F# Phrygian

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

A mandolin fill is short and often tremolo-doubled, so the scale here is a source of two- and three-note runs between the vocal phrases, not a ladder to climb.

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