It's a different technique to accompany a piece of music where you use notes in different sequences of patterns from certain chords. Alberti bass could be played as a broken chord or an arpeggios
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Basso continuo is the art of creating an accompaniment from a given bass part. Alberti bass is one form of accompaniment, namely an arpeggio figure that imitates a certain style of guitar plucking. Typically an Alberti bass on the chord of C would go c-g-e-g repeatedly.
Alberti Bass (APEX) 2011
A very popular example of Classical accompaniment based on triads is the Alberti bass, initially developed by Domenico Alberti (1710-1740). Alberti bass is a kind of broken chord/triad or arpeggiated accompaniment, where the notes of the chord are presented in the order lowest, highest, middle, highest. For example, if a C major chord was being played in root position, the order would be C-G-E-G.
An Alberti bass is played by breaking up a chord into the following pattern: Lowest note, Highest, middle, highest. Playing a C chord in root position would be C-G-E-G