F Persian Scale on Bass Ukulele

Play the F Persian scale on Bass Ukulele with fretboard diagrams that map the pattern across the neck. The Persian scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the world family.

2 of Bass Ukulele's 4 open strings belong to F Persian: E (the 7th), A (the 3rd). The D and G strings fall outside it, and F is not available open. Open, the strings cover E1 to G2.

Intensely exotic — two half-step clusters (b2 against the root, b5 against the 4) and a raised 7th make it the most dramatic of the world scales. Mysterious, ornate, and tense.

Heard in: Persian and Middle-Eastern-flavored melodies, film scoring for desert and ancient settings, and exotic metal and progressive-rock riffs.

It has a short scale near 21 inches strung with thick polymer strings, which is how a ukulele-sized body reaches bass pitches.

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 F Persian scale to the chords it harmonizes and to progressions in the key of F 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.