walking bass

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/ beɪs /

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noun

(in jazz piano) a left-hand accompaniment consisting of a continuous rhythm of four beats to the measure, usually with a repetitive melodic pattern.

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How to use walking bass in a sentence

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Other footage shows him fleeing, keeping to a quick walk, jogging briefly, then walking again as he heads for a subway station.
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After walking block after block holding that container, he had suddenly discarded it and was now clutching a gun.
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Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.
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A delightful instance of this fell under my own observation, as I was walking on Hampstead Heath.
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Why he did that, instead of walking around on the shore, Jimmy Rabbit couldn't understand.
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The evening previous to his death he was walking about the farm, in the full possession of all his faculties of mind and body.
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British Dictionary definitions for walking bass

walking bass

/ (beɪs) /

noun

jazz a simple accompaniment played by the double bass at medium tempo, usually consisting of ascending and descending tones or semitones, one to each beat

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