Sentence examples for beat often from inspiring English sources

The beat often comes first, and the lyrics are pulled along by the demands of rhythm.

This art form is distinct from ordinary spoken poetry because it is performed to a beat, often with background music.

He played around the root and the beat, often skewing the pocket, skipping the one, holding off on the changes, bubbling up around it, or playing a melodic counterpoint.

It's like watching a squad of Barbarellas in clubland — a driving, pumping beat often emerges from the glitchy score by the duo Prism House, which also handled the video.

The cellar fills to create a shebeen atmosphere: Mick's playing is polished, Winston picks the beat – often circumnavigating, but never losing it – with the odd dazzling flurry on the fretboard while Ronnie sings.

This is a drum I beat often: my most important criteria in judging a game is whether it's fun.

His D.J. supplied stark electronic beats, often close to techno and drum-and-bass.

Big beats often heaved into the foreground but also tapered away, leaving room for more delicate sounds: a sliding bass fiddle line, a glimmering harp.

She quickly abandoned the chair but not the casual attitude, even as heavily filtered beats, often verging on vintage trip-hop, swelled beneath her.

On recordings crisp electronic beats often carry new soca songs, but live musicians still propel the high-speed party music onstage; the groups are billed as brass bands.

Meanwhile, the beats often used drum sounds that had been reversed — with their attack arriving at the end of the impact rather than the beginning — to disorienting effect.