B Gypsy Minor Scale — Taro-Patch Ukulele
The B Gypsy Minor pattern on GCEA strings — see it, hear it, drill it.
The B Gypsy Minor scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the world family. Here it is mapped onto the Taro-Patch Ukulele's GCEA strings, position by position, with the root highlighted so the pattern anchors to B 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.
Reentrant tuning means the top string of the chart is not the lowest note — the maps below follow the Taro-Patch Ukulele as it actually sounds, not a borrowed guitar chart.
Play each position slowly against the audio until the shape and the sound lock together, then take it to the progressions in B to use it over real changes.