C Harmonic Minor — Double Bass

The C Harmonic Minor scale runs 7 notes per octave in the common 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.

Dark and dramatic. The raised 7th pulls hard toward the tonic, and the wide step from the b6 up to it gives the scale an exotic, almost Middle-Eastern tension.

Heard in: Classical minor-key harmony, neoclassical metal (Yngwie Malmsteen), flamenco-tinged rock, klezmer, and Balkan melodies.

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.