D# Gypsy Major — Irish Bouzouki

D# Gypsy Major carries 7 notes per octave (world family), drawn here across the Irish Bouzouki's GDAD courses with every root marked — melody is this instrument's first language, and these maps are its phrasebook.

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.

GDAD bends the grid on the top course: patterns climb in fifths until the final fourth, where every shape shifts by two frets — the maps below draw that kink instead of pretending it away.

Pick each note cleanly with alternating strokes before you ever tremolo it, and let the audio set the pitch in your ear as you go.