Upright 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 upright takes a chorus less often than anyone, and that is exactly why these matter: the notes between one chord root and the next come out of a scale, and a walk that lands on the wrong one is the loudest wrong note in the room.

The diagrams mark stopping points along the EADG fingerboard, not frets — there are none. Treat every dot as a place the hand has to find by ear, and use the playback to check that it did.