C# Locrian Scale — Taro-Patch Ukulele

The C# Locrian scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the modes family. Here it is mapped onto the Taro-Patch Ukulele's GCEA strings, position by position, with the root highlighted so the pattern anchors to C# wherever you play it.

The most dissonant, unstable mode — the tonic chord is diminished (b5), making a true Locrian tonal center rare. Used for color and passing harmony.

Heard in: Metal riffs, jazz (half-diminished ø7 chords in ii°7 – V – i), horror and tension film scores.

Reentrant tuning means the top string of the chart is not the lowest note — the maps below follow the Taro-Patch Ukulele 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 C# to use it over real changes.