Meaning of backbeat in English
(Definition of backbeat from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of backbeat
backbeat
The third variation is a heavily syncopated deconstruction of the main theme with a lumbering jazzy backbeat.
One review notes that it easily and off-handedly incorporates funk and rock elements without becoming a collection that is dominated by a backbeat aesthetic.
The "habanera rhythm" can be thought of as a combination of tresillo and the backbeat.
It was a big ballad with a heavy backbeat, and although many artists have cut songs like it since, no one was doing it then.
In general, he is one of the few hard rock drummers to combine a driving backbeat with jazz-like flourishes.
The pattern marks the clave by accenting the backbeat on the two-side.
The song features heavy breathing with a backbeat.
Then there's the reggae-blues of the title trick, which swings out of a jazzy backbeat into a rootsier inner circle type groove.
Rock and roll however has a greater emphasis on the backbeat than boogie woogie.
There is a simple drum backbeat, the bassline, and a string instrument riff as well as a trumpet fanfare.
In today's popular music the snare drum is typically used to play the backbeat pattern.
Today in popular music, especially with rock drum kits, the snare drum is typically used to play a backbeat pattern.
Electronic instruments and rock backbeats were dropped, reverting to a more classic sound.
It has a backbeat that is slightly rock influenced.
The song was performed as a mid-tempo twelve-bar jump blues that features sax and trumpet soloing over a strong backbeat.
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