The French are very much keeping the tempo up.
We're all interested in keeping our tempo up".
By keeping the tempo a little reined-in during the finale, a Rondo Alla Polacca, they actually enhanced the music's rustic vigor and heartiness.
Mr. Haitink also put the march back into the funeral march movement, yet by keeping the tempo moving, he enhanced the tragic gravity of the music.
Solo performers find it curiously difficult to play a musical line simply and grammatically -- keeping the tempo, observing note values and moving to the correct rhythm.
The crucial job of keeping the tempo in check fell to the principal percussionist, Gregory Zuber, who played the hypnotic bolero rhythm on the snare drum with uncanny steadiness.
Although the conductor, David Wroe, seemed precise and somewhat understated, many of the singers had such difficulty keeping in tempo that he appeared less a leader than a traffic cop, one unable to enforce the speed limit.
The key, for more than 200km, was using Chris Froome and Steve Cummings to ride at the front of the peloton, keeping the tempo high but ignoring the temptation to chase breaks by the seven men who went off early and eventually opened a gap of eight minutes, or by the half-dozen who followed them up the road with 150km to go.
Sheffield added that, in the song, by comparison, "she reminds you what a smart job she normally does of keeping the tempo jumping".
Start mentally counting, "one, two, three, four" as you read the music, keeping your tempo as steady as possible.
