G# Gypsy Minor Scale — Guitalele

The G# Gypsy Minor scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the world family. Here it is mapped onto the Guitalele's ADGCEA strings, position by position, with the root highlighted so the pattern anchors to G# wherever you play it.

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.

Guitar shapes work unchanged on guitalele — finger them exactly as charted; every shape sounds a perfect fourth higher than on guitar.

Play each position slowly against the audio until the shape and the sound lock together, then take it to the progressions in G# to use it over real changes.