The phrase "a sort of beat" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a rhythm or pattern that is not precisely defined, often in music or poetry.
Example: "The song had a sort of beat that made it impossible not to dance."
Alternatives: "a kind of rhythm" or "a type of cadence."
Here JAkwob and his collaboratalentedcalists Rocky and Jeta work on a track from his forthcoming new album. .
There was an odd kind of poetry in the writing, a sort of rhythm beating at the back of the sentences, tugging and pushing at the punctuation and drifting through the pages.
The lack of any sort of beat only adds to the disorientation.
In "Thunderbolt" you augment the song with flashes of lightning and waves of electronica, as if manipulating a sort of personal beat box.
The production actually started as a house thing with a chord progression that I wrote, but with some time in the studio alone I was making a sort of "wildfire" beat out of it.
When last we saw Piper, she was in the snow, in a sort of trance, beating the stuffing out of Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning), who had come at her after a Christmas pageant with a sharpened cross.
It may be coincidence, but that wave, the one that communicates touch, is just around the rhythm of a heartbeat, a sort of essential bodily beat".
Her body becomes a sort of human syncopated beat – an urgent thing, parts moving seemingly independently but all working to a greater good.
This being X Factor, though, I'm terrified that any second now a sort of hip-hop beat will kick in and they'll start rapping an interlude to the Ghostbusters theme tune.
I'm a diehard New York Giants fan and between various ESPN and NFL apps, a New York Times subscription, all sorts of beat writer Twitter follows and the best of Mike Francesa's daily WFAN show on my podcast feed, these days I can be as informed and opinionated on the G-Men as "Vinny from Queens" and other regular callers to Francesa's New York radio show.
