C# Gypsy Minor Scale on Greek Bouzouki

Play the C# Gypsy Minor scale on Greek Bouzouki with fretboard diagrams that map the pattern across the neck. The Gypsy Minor scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the world family.

2 of Greek Bouzouki's 4 open courses belong to C# Gypsy Minor: C (the 7th), A (the flat 6th). The F and D strings fall outside it, and C# is not available open. Open, the courses cover C3 to D4.

It is also known as the Hungarian Minor scale.

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.

Greek Bouzouki is tuned C–F–A–D, with 15 frets to work with. Voicings are computed for this tuning by the shared voicing generator, not borrowed from another instrument; each course is charted at its fundamental, so the octave strings on the two lower courses are not drawn.

Each position shows the scale notes and their intervals from the root so you can connect the shape to its sound, hear it with audio playback, and practice it in any register. Movable patterns let you transpose the same fingering to other keys once it is learned.

Once a position is under your fingers, link the C# Gypsy Minor scale to the chords it harmonizes and to progressions in the key of C# to start improvising and writing with it. Working a scale alongside its chords is the fastest way to make it stick and to hear how it colors a progression.