Upright Bass: F# Natural Minor Over the Changes

F# Natural Minor 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.

The standard natural minor scale — melancholic, introspective, and deeply emotive. The most common minor sound in Western music.

Heard in: Pop, rock, classical, metal — the default minor sound of Western music.

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.

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.