D Gypsy Minor on Vihuela

D Gypsy Minor runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is mapped onto this instrument's A–D–G–B–E fretboard with every D marked, because what a player needs mid-number is not the pattern but where the root is when the harmony moves under 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.

The armonía is not a soloing section, so a scale here is diagnostic rather than melodic: it is how a player finds which tones a grip is actually putting in the air on a neck whose octaves do not run in order.

Take it slowly against the playback until the geometry stops being geometry, then put it under a number in D minor and let the written line pick its own notes out of it.