C Harmonic Minor — Guitarrón

C Harmonic Minor is 7 notes per octave (common family), drawn here as position boxes on the Guitarrón's ADGCEA grid with the root flagged in each — learn one box deeply, then let the overlaps carry you into the next.

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 grid under these maps is the standard one, so the boxes are the boxes guitarists already know — the ADGCEA grid.

Play each box top to bottom until the roots feel like home base, then practice crossing between boxes mid-phrase — neck freedom is exactly that crossing, nothing more.