D Gypsy Minor — Bass VI

The D Gypsy Minor scale runs 7 notes per octave in the world 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.

Harmonic minor with a raised 4th — two wide, yearning steps (b3 to #4, b6 to 7) give it a smoldering, theatrical intensity. Dark, exotic, and full of drama.

Heard in: Hungarian and Romani folk, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies, gypsy jazz, klezmer, and neoclassical metal.

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 D and let the scale turn into lines.