Upright Bass: G Lydian Over the Changes

Where G Lydian lies at this seat, and what a chorus takes out of it.

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

Major with a raised 4th (#4) — dreamy, ethereal, and floating. Often called the brightest mode, with an otherworldly suspended quality.

Heard in: Film scores, progressive rock, jazz — Joe Satriani's "Flying in a Blue Dream", John Williams, Steve Vai.

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.