C Spanish — Bass (5-String)

The C Spanish 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.

Fiery and exotic — the b2 presses against the root while the major 3rd keeps it from sounding plainly minor. Flamenco heat with a Middle-Eastern edge: dramatic, urgent, and passionate.

Heard in: Flamenco and Spanish classical guitar, klezmer and "Hava Nagila", Arabic and Jewish liturgical music, metal riffs, and the V chord of harmonic minor.

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 C and let the scale turn into lines.