A# Ionian Scale — Guitalele

The A# Ionian scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the modes family. Here it is mapped onto the Guitalele's ADGCEA 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.

Guitar shapes work unchanged on guitalele — finger them exactly as charted; every shape sounds a perfect fourth higher than on guitar.

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.