6. Which piece did we listen to in class had a walking bass?

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Question restatement: The prompt asks which musical piece listened to in class had a walking bass line. Options provided are: "Heartbreak Hotel", "Hound Dog", "My Girl", and "Blueberry Hill".
Option 1: "Heartbreak Hotel". This track features a steady, walking bass line that moves stepwise and outlines the harmony in a way that creates a forward motion typical of early rock and roll bass practices. The bass often walks between chords, contributing to a percussive, propulsive feel.
Option 2: "Hound Dog". While driven by a strong rhythm and guitar riff, the bass in this song can be less of a true walking bass and more of a rhythmically anchoring part with fewer chromatic or scalar steps that characterize a classic walking bass line.
Option 3: "My Girl". This piece is built around a prominent, groove-oriented bass line (often played with funk/soul flavor) that supports the groove heavily, but it doesn’t typify the textbook walking bass feel as it emphasizes a steady groove and melodic bass hooks rather than continuous scalar motion.
Option 4: "Blueberry Hill". The arrangement features a boogie-woogie influenced pattern with a lively bass figure, but the bass line is more repetitive and chord-focused rather than a true walking bass that spans scales step by step through the changes.
Synthesis: Among the listed options, the walking bass characteristic—the bass moving stepwise to outline chord changes and drive the harmony forward—maps most closely to the bass approach heard in the first option, aligning with a common early rock/pop approach to walking bass lines. The other selections emphasize strong rhythm/feel or repetitive patterns without the same scalar, forward-walking bass motion, making them less representative of a walking bass feature. Therefore, the option that aligns with the described characteristic is the one that presents the bass line moving linearly with changes, as described for "Heartbreak Hotel".

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