Guitar: 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.

A guitar chorus is a single line with the comp dropped, so a scale here is what the picking hand walks through between the two or three phrases it actually meant to play.

Every shape is drawn for EADGBE across 6 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.