E Gypsy Major — Tenor Guitar

E Gypsy Major is 7 notes per octave (world family), drawn here as position boxes on the Tenor Guitar's CGDA grid with the root flagged in each — learn one box deeply, then let the overlaps carry you into the next.

Brash and colorful — a #2 crushed against the major 3rd and a #4 give it a Lydian-dominant swagger with a Romani twist. Bold, spicy, and unpredictable.

Heard in: Hungarian and Romani folk, Bartok and Liszt, gypsy-jazz flourishes, and fusion lines over dominant chords.

Fifths spread each scale wider per string than a standard guitar — fewer notes per position, longer reaches, and patterns that repeat cleanly across every string pair.

Play each box top to bottom until the roots feel like home base, then practice crossing between boxes mid-phrase — neck freedom is exactly that crossing, nothing more.