Electric Bass: F Major Over the Changes

Where F Major lies at this seat, and what a chorus takes out of it.

F Major runs 7 notes to the octave, laid out here on EADG with every F flagged. Mid-chorus the pattern is not what you need; where the root is when the chord changes underneath you is.

Bright, resolved, and stable. The foundation of Western tonal music and the most common mode in pop, classical, folk, and jazz.

Heard in: Pop, classical, country, folk, gospel — the default major tonality of Western music.

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.

Play it slowly against the audio until it stops being a shape, then put it over two bars of a form and let the chord tones decide which of the notes you actually keep.