Sentence examples for half steps of from inspiring English sources

Microtonal music, music using tones in intervals that differ from the standard semitones (half steps) of a tuning system or scale.

The brash but patient Greene, who holds the world record of 9.79 seconds at 100 meters, believes the two runners will come off the curve together, or within one and a half steps of each other, and that he will pull victory out at the end.

At one point I'm pretty sure Xaphan forgot what key he was supposed to be playing in, and spent a couple of verses playing a half step out of tune with the rest of the band, which only added to the overall brutality.

Phrasing it in the form of, "Hey, what's the worst advice you got?" at least gives you a half-step of distance to it.

You know you make a step forward, but you don't know if it is just a half-step of what will be 20 steps or if this will be the big step.

Take a hard half step to the right side of the ball with your right foot.

An example of the half steps Mr. Bartholomew spoke of is a proposed $1 billion, 14-mile freeway, which critics argue will cause more congestion and wreck wetlands along the Great Salt Lake.

Carillon, musical instrument consisting of at least 23 cast bronze bells in fixed suspension, tuned in chromatic order (i.e., in half steps) and capable of concordant harmony when sounded together.

Eventually Monkey half-steps out of his reverie and runs, slowed as though through space, toward a lone, glowing carnival tent in the middle of a dark field.

Such a scale lacks the distribution of whole and half steps that define the character of the major and minor scales of the common practice period.

Through the connection with the Strang operator splitting integrator, this counter-intuitive behavior is explained by the fact that the error in the half step velocities of the Boris mover is proportional to the time step of the simulation.