Fiddle Fills With B Gypsy Minor

B Gypsy Minor runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's GDAE fingerboard with every B marked, because what a fill needs mid-song is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes 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 fiddle takes the intro hook and the turnaround answer more often than any other chair, so its scale work is intonation work — no frets to correct you, and a bow that exposes every approximation.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a song in B and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.