This is a great scale to add flavour and mystique to your Aeolian (minor scale) soloing. The Hungarian Gypsy is our next minor scale and is very dark sounding, with its formula of R-2-b3-#4-5-b6-7.
and natural minor scale (1-2-b3-4-5-b6-b7), also known as Aeolian mode. There are other scales, such as the Dorian mode (1-2-b3-4-5-6-b7), but the minor pentatonic and natural minor are the ones ...