Electric Bass: What a Chorus Is Improvised From

Pick a root and one of 24 types and see it where this seat plays it, roots marked throughout. A chorus is not a scale played straight through — it is a handful of notes taken out of one and timed to land where the chord changes.

The electric bass can hold a note long enough for it to be heard as a choice rather than a step, so a scale here is read for its strong tones first and its passing tones second.

Every shape is drawn for EADG across 4 strings, the open ones first and the movable ones up the neck after them, and each one plays back so you can hear the voicing before you commit it to a chorus.