How To Use Backbeat In A Sentence
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In ‘The Pulse’, for example, Kalahari drums and xylophones provide the backbeat for an urban rap narrative.
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A few nifty time changes really wouldn't go amiss and the relentless search for the funky backbeat often precludes the actual resolution of a hummable tune.
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By the album's last few tracks, the fills outweigh the backbeats to the point where he's pushing fusion jazz territory.
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By the album's last few tracks, the fills outweigh the backbeats to the point where he's pushing fusion jazz territory.
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Through it all, the common thread is the ancient and blessed backbeat, the timeless cry of the bottleneck guitar, and R.L. Burnside's frequently voiced benediction, ‘Well, well, well…’
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One thing I have learned - and this is going to sound silly - is that music is music, and whether it's rap or indie-rock or pop, the circuitry that makes you react to a melody or a backbeat is the same.
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It sounds very much like a stock party beat, with plenty of chimes and a very simple backbeat.
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The crisp backbeat and twinkling xylophones remind one of a child's playroom, with toys scattered and overturned, and the sun building shadows in their midst.
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While Mr. Domino pounded out a steady bank of triplets (three notes to every beat), the drummer hit the second and fourth beats harder (known as a "backbeat") and the horns played call-and response bass riffs.
The Rhythm of Rock 'n' Roll: 'It's All in the 1, 2, 3'
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It's all held together with a pulsing electronic backbeat and definitely the lightest of the sounds on offer tonight, with one eye on the student indie clubs and the other on the Top 40.
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Yet by marrying lyrics that name-checked Ezra Pound and TS Eliot as well as Ma Rainey and Beethoven to a rock'n'roll backbeat, he revolutionised popular music.
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One song was roots rock, the next featured reggae backbeats.
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The subwoofer will also get a workout, as Jason's heart thumps harder than a Dr. Dre backbeat.
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I mean, my whole life has been, you know, the backbeat has been, the backbeat has been the Beatles.
CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2001
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Nonetheless, the instrumental arrangements are tweaked just enough from track to track (handclaps, xylophone, 70s disco backbeat, etc.) to sustain the listener's interest.
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The backbeat of the song easily guiding the rock of her hips, her nails raking up the nape of Rae's neck, tangling her fingers through her hair and holding the steady gaze.
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One song was roots rock, the next featured reggae backbeats.
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In the background, the roar of Cascade Creek provided a constant backbeat, a reminder that this part of Alaska really is a rain forest, getting more than 100 inches of rain annually.
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There is just enough of a techno backbeat and muted changes in the music, without totally distorting the song.
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The band often seem shy of their own talents, content to hammer a sloppy backbeat under familiar-sounding changes.
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So maybe they won't have the next hit single - if for no other reason than the bleeps censoring out the drug references could constitute a whole new backbeat on their own.
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It's big, it's fast, it's loud, it's got a backbeat you can't move with a juggernaut and it's definitely not clever.
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The smoky melody to the ensuing Ruins makes Jack Wyllie's sax more like a stringed instrument crossed with a trumpet, its quivering vibrato spooky but turning more guttural and free-jazzy as the backbeat pushes on.
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‘All the Rest’ follows with a more focused pop hook and a strong backbeat.
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Tony Allen (best known as the backbeat of legend Fela's band) want us to download the 15 constituent parts of the single "Secret Agent," the title track off his new album on World Circuit label.
Disquiet
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By the album's last few tracks, the fills outweigh the backbeats to the point where he's pushing fusion jazz territory.
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It's meant to be fun and danceable, and as long as the backbeat is steady, you're good to go.
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For forty years, I kept on singing," she sang over a pulsing backbeat, then swung her arm around for emphasis, "before the money started r-o-l-l-i-n-g in!
Art Levine: Amid Dreary Concert Season, Bettye LaVette's Triumphant Return
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In the background, the roar of Cascade Creek provided a constant backbeat, a reminder that this part of Alaska really is a rain forest, getting more than 100 inches of rain annually.
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Her delivery is made up of not quite equal parts rhythmic gesture you can hear the backbeat in much of her singing and a modulated jazz inflection with which she toys with the ends of lines.
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He has always liked to stitch his folk songwriting to a muted electronic backbeat, and he retains that sense of cautious experimentalism here.
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A steady backbeat conjoined with the wonderfully pacifist chorus ‘You've got to tolerate / All those people that you hate’ make the song one of the album's highlights.
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The rhythm guitarist, in the same mold as the other two, punctuated the backbeat with a bluesy chord, rotating through a basic progression, changing with each quick, downward strum.
1965, what I wanted - 3
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The album works on a simple idea: muted backbeats with beautiful acoustic guitar melodies layered on top.
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His own music, as most recently heard on the new double studio album, mixes freewheeling improvisation with playful swing and the occasional funky backbeat.
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The track features a sweet backbeat that sounds like music that would be played on Halloween, interestingly enough.
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If you were watching closely, you could even catch the occasional moment when the crowd's woozy sway, spurred on by a few almost clubby backbeats, slid into actual dancing.
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So I think when they're playing a backbeat, it's very authentic.
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The band funks it up with varying shuffle drum backbeats, throbbing bass lines, a wailing saxophone and feathery keyboard treatments.
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The brilliant Backbeat Beatles play the Pavilion Theatre in Bournemouth on Monday.
