walking bass

He attempted a walking bass and his two hands got tangled.

Gradually more voices are added in the right hand, while the left continues to play a walking bass.

And we just made it a little jazzier - played more on the walking bass line.

Another started out mimicking swing, with a walking bass, but broke down into free time after a few bars.

The main rhythm part of this example is very similar to the walking bass idea that we saw in fig 2 of last month's article.

The song itself (which sounds like an American cover) features a nice walking bass pattern, with a fine harmonica solo in the middle.

The five-part choir is accompanied only by the continuo as a walking bass.

Partly, this is a result of routine: an audience knows the sound of a walking bass, and the actual thing can be obvious.

Later the brass enter with a nice blues section, I really liked the walking bass of the lone contra.

Note the nice walking bass lines.

This was really straight ahead jazz - walking bass, a swinging drum beat - but expressed through experiences of the musicians today.

The notes, perfectly placed, have a geometry to them that gives his walking bass lines the inexorability of an avalanche.

But then his right arm mysteriously disappeared, leaving him with nothing but a boogie-woogie walking bass.

Then that will give way to a walking bass, as if the music were meant as a synecdoche of the whole of jazz.

The supporting voices can provide counter-melodies, close harmonies, or a walking bass to the melody line, which is sung in a middle voice.

Mr. Parker's "Belief" rarely even uses the walking bass line that is central to jazz.

"We were really playing a kind of rock "n" roll boogie, with that Detroit-Motown walking bass.

After its statement, it is varied twice, the first time with a quaver walking bass, then with the melody itself played in quavers.

The next example (fig 2) shows a 12 bar 'walking bass' rhythm part idea in which each bass note is followed by an open string double-stop.

The movements starts with a heavy-footed walking bass theme - directed to be played heavily (pesante) and fortissimo.

It is primarily a form of dance music utilizing the walking bass, and is generally composed in sonata form.

Walking bass often alternates quarter notes:

The theme is the Gregorian Chant, first presented by the tenor in long notes on a walking bass of the continuo.

Even as she finished speaking, the walking bass line with which she was underpinning her mournful chord returned to that dysharmonic C sharp.

The opening track, Nuki Nooki, starts with a classic walking bass riff and then explodes into this big band number.