Bass Fills With G Ionian

G Ionian runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is laid onto this chair's EADG fretboard with every G marked, because what a fill needs mid-song is not the pattern — it is where the root is when the chord changes under it.

Bright, resolved, and stable. The foundation of Western tonal music and the most common mode in pop, classical, folk, and jazz.

Heard in: Pop, classical, country, folk, gospel — the default major tonality of Western music.

The bass rarely takes a fill, and that is precisely why these matter: the notes between one root and the next come out of the scale, and a walk that lands wrong is the loudest mistake in the mix.

Play it slowly against the audio until the shape stops being a shape, then take it to a song in G and let the melody pick its own notes out of it.