Banjo: the Notes a Chart Never Prints

Pick a root and one of 24 types and see it as it lies on this reader's fretboard, roots marked throughout. A number chart is a list of chords and bar counts; everything else that happens is somebody's decision, made in real time out of a map like this one.

A pattern that never stops still has to be made of notes, and the ones it is made of are chosen from this set the moment the written number changes under it.

That silence is a feature. A chart that specified the notes would take an hour to write and would stop being readable at a count-off, which is the only thing it was ever for.