A Ionian Scale — Banjolele

The A Ionian scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the modes family. Here it is mapped onto the Banjolele's GCEA strings, position by position, with the root highlighted so the pattern anchors to A wherever you play it.

Bright, resolved, and stable. The foundation of Western tonal music and the most common mode in pop, classical, folk, and jazz.

Heard in: Pop, classical, country, folk, gospel — the default major tonality of Western music.

Reentrant tuning means the top string of the chart is not the lowest note — the maps below follow the Banjolele as it actually sounds, not a borrowed guitar chart.

Play each position slowly against the audio until the shape and the sound lock together, then take it to the progressions in A to use it over real changes.