F Harmonic Minor — Jacob Collier 5-String

F Harmonic Minor is 7 notes per octave (common family), drawn here as position boxes on the Jacob Collier 5-String's DAEAD 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 DAEAD tuning mirrors around its middle E string, so a box does not keep its shape as it crosses the centre the way it would on a guitar — these maps draw every position where it actually falls.

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.