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Harmonic Minor Scale Guitar

Play A harmonic minor on the fretboard

A harmonic minor is A B C D E F G♯: A natural minor with only the 7th changed, G raised to G♯, and the root sits at fret 5 of the low E string.

The jump from F to G♯ is three frets on one string. The open G string is G natural, so hitting it by habit leaves harmonic minor. Dots name pitches, not fingers. Frets 4–8 are the home stretch around that G♯–A pair, not the only fingering. Source: Open Music Theory: minor scales.

A harmonic minor in three fret windows

A harmonic minor notes on frets 4 to 8
Frets 4–8. G♯ is at fret 4 and A is at fret 5 on the low E string.
A harmonic minor notes on frets 6 to 10
Frets 6–10. A returns on the D string at fret 7, with G♯ at fret 6 on the same string.
A harmonic minor notes on frets 11 to 15
Frets 11–15. A sits at fret 12 on the A string; G♯ is fret 11 on that string.

Same-root natural minor scale guitar lowers that 7th to G. Dorian scale guitar raises the 6th instead of the 7th. Mixolydian scale guitar is a major-mode page with a lowered 7th. The full neck stays on guitar scales, and the five-note map is on pentatonic scale. The major V this raised 7th builds, and the rest of the chords in a minor key, are on minor chords.