Just shipped to beta: walking bass 🫰
Hey folks!
Quick note here to let you know about something new on the beta version of Strum Machine that I'm really stoked about: you can now make the standup bass walk!
It will play four notes per measure over any chord progression, putting together bass lines that connect chord tones in (hopefully!) pleasing ways. It will play "ghost notes" here and there as well to add interest.
To hear it for yourself, head over to beta.strummachine.com or grab the "SM Beta" app on iOS. There are new Jazz & Swing presets that include walking bass, so that'll be the easiest way to get started.
Eventually I'll have it play the occasional eighth note and "indirect approach" (playing a non-root chord tone on beat 1), and I plan to add more customization options in terms of "walking style" at some point.
There are a lot of edge cases when it comes to this kind of thing, so if it ever hits a "wrong note", please send me a link to the affected song so that I can check it out.
Cheers,
Luke
P.S. - If you were wondering what I was hinting at in the P.S. of my last email, this was it!