Talk:Alberti bass

Nifty! I can hardly wait to go home and play it... --Ed Poor

'''Fascinating..... can wait to get home and play this either mate! This is a work of art.'''

Definition is wrong or examples are wrong
I was taught that Alberti bass is as the definition - lowest, highest, middle, highest. This is also what this article claims. A cursory search seems to agree with this. However, many of the examples here do not follow this pattern?

Either the definition needs to be amended (with something like "usually") or a bunch of the examples should be deleted.

I think the Beethoven example in the article doesn't belong right? Alberti bass should be bottom top middle top but the Beethoven example is just ascending arpeggios.

Change the recording !
Erhm... Does anyone support my opinion that a *real* recording (with a live pianist and a real instrument) would enhance the pleasure and interest of the listener ? I upload in a few minutes such a recording (I make it myself so it is free of rights under the usual disclaimer) under the url http: (here the ritual two slashes) manu.amiot.free.fr/podcasts/alberti.ogg

If anyone is competent for the rewiring, please feel free to put the file at the appropriate location with a link on it ! The interpret will remain 'anon' (one one the best ! ;-) ), the instrument is a grand Erard dated 1875. A bit late' for WAM but much, much better than MIDI isn'it ?

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PS : there are interesting mathematical properties of the Alberti Bass... More about these in a later article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.250.144.85 (talk) 13:23, 23 March 2007 (UTC). hi

Apropos "Secrets" by One Republic. The arpeggiation pattern played by the strings on that track is 1,3,5,3,5,3,1,3, which does not follow the classical definition of Alberti Bass (1,5,3,5). Perhaps I am wrong, and Alberti bass is more inclusive than just low, high, middle, high, but every time I have ever heard a discussion of Alberti bass, it was limited to the aforementioned apreggiation pattern of 1,5,3,5. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.223.209.120 (talk) 03:41, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

redirect requests
Alberti figuration and Alberti figure would be two helpful redirects here. Thanks. 86.176.50.96 (talk) 07:51, 7 May 2016 (UTC) [IPs can't create redirects]

Good points of writing
I enjoyed the sentence 'The broken chord pattern helps to create a smooth, sustained, flowing sound on the piano.' having been applied to describe Alberti Bass, which highlighted the average rhythm of pianist' hands making it like a peaceful surface of water. It was also the educational requirements towards our learners' controllability of fingering and forces. Jason M. C., Han (talk) 09:36, 29 September 2017 (UTC)