Hungarian Gypsy scale
Despite the unusual spelling the catalog gives it, this scale is a natural minor with the fourth raised a half step and nothing else altered, which the alternate name Aeolian ♯4 records accurately.
- Used for
- Folk-flavored and cinematic writing.
- Formula
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Steps W H 1½ H H W W Semitones 2-1-3-1-1-2-2 Degrees 1 2 ♭3 ♯4 5 ♭6 ♭7 - Relationships
- It is the fourth mode of the Neapolitan Minor scale.
- Rotating it onto the fifth degree produces the Neapolitan Minor scale.
- Also called
- Shanmukhapriya.
Hungarian Gypsy in all 12 keys
Pick a key to see it on the piano, or jump straight to the guitar view.
- C C Hungarian Gypsy scale piano guitar
- D flat Db Hungarian Gypsy scale piano guitar
- D D Hungarian Gypsy scale piano guitar
- E flat Eb Hungarian Gypsy scale piano guitar
- E E Hungarian Gypsy scale piano guitar
- F F Hungarian Gypsy scale piano guitar
- G flat Gb Hungarian Gypsy scale piano guitar
- G G Hungarian Gypsy scale piano guitar
- A flat Ab Hungarian Gypsy scale piano guitar
- A A Hungarian Gypsy scale piano guitar
- B flat Bb Hungarian Gypsy scale piano guitar
- B B Hungarian Gypsy scale piano guitar
