D# on the Bass

All 62 qualities on the root D#, in 10 families, drawn for this chair. Most country songs use three or four of them; the rest are here for the turnaround that reaches further.

The bass chair carries the root-and-fifth pulse everything else in the arrangement is timed against. Almost none of a chord is playable down here and almost none of it is wanted: the mix hears whichever note sits at the bottom as the chord, so the choice is which one, and when.