Piano: 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 right hand takes the line and the left keeps stating the chord under it, which makes a scale at this seat a two-handed problem: the notes have to work against a voicing you are choosing at the same time.

The diagrams are drawn across all 88 keys from A0 to C8, with the notes that sound lit and the ones a voicing drops shown dashed, so what you are looking at is a decision rather than a picture of every note in the chord.