Dobro Fills With G Harmonic Minor

G Harmonic Minor runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's GBDGBD neck with every G marked, because what a fill needs mid-song is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under it.

Dark and dramatic. The raised 7th pulls hard toward the tonic, and the wide step from the b6 up to it gives the scale an exotic, almost Middle-Eastern tension.

Heard in: Classical minor-key harmony, neoclassical metal (Yngwie Malmsteen), flamenco-tinged rock, klezmer, and Balkan melodies.

The dobro slides into notes rather than fretting them cleanly, so a scale here is a target list for the bar more than a set of stops — the slide finds the pitch, the scale says which pitch to find.

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