C Gypsy Minor — Double Bass

The C Gypsy Minor scale runs 7 notes per octave in the world family. Below it sits on the Double Bass's EADG 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.

The Double Bass has no frets to trust: the map marks positions on the fingerboard, and the audio is there to keep your intonation honest — match each note by ear, pizzicato first, then with the bow.

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.