Fiddle Fills With A# Phrygian

A# Phrygian 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.

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.

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.