Fiddle Fills With A# Locrian

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

The most dissonant, unstable mode — the tonic chord is diminished (b5), making a true Locrian tonal center rare. Used for color and passing harmony.

Heard in: Metal riffs, jazz (half-diminished ø7 chords in ii°7 – V – i), horror and tension film scores.

The fiddle takes the intro hook and the turnaround answer more often than any other chair, so its scale work is intonation work — no frets to correct you, and a bow that exposes every approximation.

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