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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 Erick the Architect, the honeyed vocals and prominent walking bass were balanced with crisp acoustic notes for a rich soundscape that blew my in-ear headphones out of the water.
He wore white gloves, a dignified long black coat, and matching pants and vest, and he carried a dark walking stick.
They became so brown and shriveled that they looked like walking beef jerky with New York accents.
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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.
After walking block after block holding that container, he had suddenly discarded it and was now clutching a gun.
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.
Why he did that, instead of walking around on the shore, Jimmy Rabbit couldn't understand.
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
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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