backbeat
IPA: bˈækbit
noun
- (music) The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time.
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Examples of "backbeat" in Sentences
- The action is hooked to a backbeat.
- You'd always have a great backbeat.
- Berry plays a steady backbeat throughout the song.
- It's quicker and more syncopated, but not backbeat.
- Use of backbeat and syncopation but on a moderate scale.
- It's a sort of guitar instrumental with a bass drum backbeat.
- The song was a change of pace for ELO, with a funkier backbeat.
- Rex, set against the rhythmic backbeat and horns common in swing.
- Backbeat is a term applied to a rhythmic accentuation on even beats.
- The song was covered by the Backbeat band for the film of the same name.
- I mean, my whole life has been, you know, the backbeat has been, the backbeat has been the Beatles.
- "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!"
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.