A Gypsy Minor — Bass (5-String)

The A Gypsy Minor scale runs 7 notes per octave in the world family. Below it sits on the Bass (5-String)'s BEADG 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.

In fourths tuning every pattern is movable: learn the shape once, one finger per fret, and it works from any root on the BEADG neck. With the low B in the tuning, the same fingering covers more range before your hand ever shifts.

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.