In popular music, a walking bass is a bass accompaniment generally consisting of unsyncopated notes of equal value, usually quarter notes (known in jazz as a "four feel"). Popular music is Music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more A bassline (also spelled bass line) is the term used in many styles of Popular music, such as jazz blues funk and electronic Music for the low-pitched In Music, syncopation includes a variety of Rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced See also Modern musical symbols Music notation or musical notation is any system which represents aurally perceived Music through the use A quarter note (American or "German" terminology or crotchet (British or "classical" terminology is a note played for one quarter of the duration Walking basslines use a mixture of scale tones, arpeggios, and passing tones to outline the chord progression of a song or tune, often with a melodic shape that alternately rises and falls in pitch over several bars. In Music, a scale is a group of musical notes collected in ascending and descending order that provides material for or is used to conveniently represent part or all In Music, an arpeggio is a broken chord where the Notes are played or sung in Sequence, one after the other rather than Ringing out simultaneously A nonchord tone, nonharmonic tone, or non-harmony note is a note in a piece of Music which is not a part of the chord that is formed A chord progression (also chord sequence and harmonic progression or sequence) is a series of chords played in order
Walking basslines are usually performed on the double bass or the electric bass, but they can also be performed using the low register of a piano, Hammond organ, or other instruments. The double bass is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed String instrument used in the modern symphony orchestra. The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers The Hammond organ is an electric organ which was invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company While walking bass lines are most commonly associated with jazz and blues, they are also used in rock, rockabilly, ska, R&B, gospel, latin, country, and many other genres (Friedland 1995, p. Rock music is a genre of Popular music often though not necessarily employing Electric guitar, Bass guitar, and Drums. Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of Rock and roll music and emerged in the early 1950s Ska ( pronounced /ska/ or in Jamaican Patois /skja/ is a Music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and which was the precursor Gospel music is Music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life as well as (in terms of the varying music styles to Latin music, includes the music of all countries in Latin America (and the Caribbean) and comes in many varieties Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. 4).
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Many boogie-woogie basslines are walking bass lines:
Walking bass often moves in stepwise (scalar) motion to successive chord roots, such as often in country music:
In this example, the last two quarter notes of the second measure, D and E, "walk" up from the first quarter note in that measure, C, to the first note of the third measure, F (C and F are the roots of the chords in the first through second and third through fourth measures, respectively). Boogie-woogie is a style of Piano -based Blues that became very popular in the late 1930s and early 1940s but originated much earlier and was extended from piano In Music the root ( basse fouhuhuhe) of a chord is the note or pitch upon which that chord is perceived or labelled as being built Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains.
In both cases, "walking" refers both to the steady duple rhythm (one step after the other) and to the strong directional motion created (ibid); in the examples above, from C to F and back in the second, and from root to seventh and back in the first. In Music, duple refers to duple meter. Duple is also a duration of 1½ the regular note value duration in compound and or Triple
See also
- Bass run, a short instrumental break or fill for the bass instrument (or instruments)
Source
- Friedland, Ed (1995). A bass run (or "bass break" is a short Instrumental break or fill in which the bass instrument, such as an electric bass or a Building Walking Bass Lines. ISBN 0-7935-4204-9.
External links
- Bass Lines PDF (25. 1 KiB) - 244 million bass lines in F
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sttpeVdSYTs[1] An audio/video example of a walking bass line played on electric bass guitar, created specifically to accompany this Wikipedia entry (GFDL/Creative Commons) by Dave Muscato, bassist of Treasure Junkie, for information purposes only. A kibibyte (a contraction of ki lo bi nary byte) is a unit of Information or Computer storage, established by the International
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