G# Major — Sitar

G# Major is 7 notes to the octave (common family), drawn here across the Sitar's CGCGC strings with every G# marked, so home stays visible from anywhere in the pattern.

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.

Five strings tuned CGCGC put a 12-TET scale map in an honest place: it names every fret and marks every root, but it cannot draw meend, the pitch a sitarist bends into rather than frets outright. Read this as a Western scale laid over the strings, and the thaats engine as the raga-native classification sitting beside it.

A sitarist does not run this scale as a ladder — a raga moves through its own ascent and descent, skips notes deliberately, and lingers on the swaras it favors. Treat this map as a place to find pitches, not a phrase to play.