Alberti bass

[5] The broken chord pattern helps to create a smooth, sustained, flowing sound on the piano.

Steady bass patterns in orchestral music which give the rhythmic drive to Classical music, compensating for the energetic drive of the Baroque basso continuo line.

It has been described as "a true tolerable monotony,"[7] and as "perhaps the most overworked fixture of eighteenth-century music.

[a] A famous example from 20th-century American popular music is the bass guitar part of the 1962 surf rock standard "Pipeline", by The Chantays.

[10][11] Alberti bass is also used in the ending theme of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. 2.