F♯ Locrian Scale

F♯ locrian

Notes

F♯ · G · A · B · C · D · E

Intervals

  • RootF♯ (1P)
  • Minor 2ndG (2m)
  • Minor 3rdA (3m)
  • Perfect 4thB (4P)
  • Diminished 5thC (5d)
  • Minor 6thD (6m)
  • Minor 7thE (7m)

Fretboard

EBGDAE357912EF♯GABCDEBCDEF♯GABGABCDEF♯GDEF♯GABCDABCDEF♯GAEF♯GABCDE
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Modal character

F♯ Locrian is the 7th mode of G Major — the same seven notes started from its 7th degree.

1 ♭2 ♭3 4 ♭5 ♭6 ♭7

Characteristic note — flat 5th (♭5). The ♭5 makes Locrian the only mode built on a diminished tonic triad — the most unstable of the seven and rarely used as a key center.

Locrian is the mode of the half-diminished (m7♭5) chord and is most useful over the iiø of a minor ii–V–i. Its restless quality comes from the ♭2 and ♭5 that frame the root.

Chords that use this mode

3-Notes-Per-String positions

Seven movable patterns, each covering all 6 strings with 3 consecutive scale tones per string. Root notes are shown in red.

All 7 patterns
Pattern 1open · frets 0–5
EBGDAE35EF♯GABCDEF♯GABCDEF♯GA
Pattern 2frets 2–7
EBGDAE357F♯GABCDEF♯GABCDEF♯GAB
Pattern 3frets 3–8
EBGDAE3579GABCDEF♯GABCDEF♯GABC
Pattern 4frets 5–10
EBGDAE579ABCDEF♯GABCDEF♯GABCD
Pattern 5frets 7–12
EBGDAE791213BCDEF♯GABCDEF♯GABCDE
Pattern 6frets 8–14
EBGDAE912131415CDEF♯GABCDEF♯GABCDEF♯
Pattern 7frets 10–15
EBGDAE1213141516DEF♯GABCDEF♯GABCDEF♯G

Quartal voicings

Stacked perfect 4ths across four adjacent strings, sorted nut to heel. Root notes are circled in red.

All voicings
EBGDAE3EADG
E root
EBGDAE3ADGC
A root
EBGDAE35EADG
E root
EBGDAE35F♯BEA
F# root
EBGDAE35BEAD
B root
EBGDAE57F♯BEA
F# root
EBGDAE57ADGC
A root
EBGDAE79EADG
E root
EBGDAE79ADGC
A root
EBGDAE79BEAD
B root
EBGDAE912F♯BEA
F# root
EBGDAE912BEAD
B root

Diagrams

F# Locrian Scale fretboard charts — tap any diagram to open it full size to save or print.

F# Locrian Scale — notes F#, G, A, B, C, D, E shown across the full guitar fretboard, frets 0 to 12.
Whole neck — frets 0–12
F# Locrian Scale — seven 3-notes-per-string positions shown as fretboard neck slices.
Seven 3NPS positions
F# Locrian Scale — quartal voicings shown as chord-box diagrams for all four roots.
Quartal voicings — 3 string sets, sorted nut to heel