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Walking bass
In jazz, blues, ragtime, rock, Baroque music, and other musical genres, a walking bass is a bass accompaniment consisting of unsyncopated notes of equal value, usually quarter notes. Jazz walking bass has been likened to an improvisation restricted to quarter notes.
Walking bass often moves in stepwise motion to successive chord roots, such as often in country music:
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