A# Phrygian — Bass VI

The A# Phrygian scale runs 7 notes per octave in the modes family. Below it sits on the Bass VI's EADGBE strings with every root marked, because a bassist reads a scale map as a set of targets around the root, not a row of dots.

Very dark minor with a half-step above the tonic. Spanish, Flamenco, and metal flavor — exotic, tense, and mysterious.

Heard in: Flamenco, metal, dark film scores — Carlos Santana solos, Joe Satriani's "War", Moorish and Andalusian music.

Because the Bass VI carries guitar tuning an octave down, these patterns are guitar geometry with bass consequences — watch the G-to-B string crossing, where the shape bends by one fret.

Walk it slowly against the audio, land each root on a downbeat, then take it to the progressions in A# and let the scale turn into lines.