Sentence examples for hard beat from inspiring English sources

A generation of disk jockeys learned to wield the power of the song's famous introduction: a hard beat, a single guitar chord, and Dibango's low growl.

"He was a good lawyer working a very hard beat," said Richard Epstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago, where Mr. Obama taught constitutional law.

It's not much more than a hard beat, some frantic hand claps and a one-note bass line that sounds like someone hitting a buzzer.

A hard beat and a soft voice: it's a reliable formula, and on her debut album, "Music of the Sun," Rihanna spends 25 minutes sticking to it.

In "Rodeo," he wraps his thick voice around a thin, sped-up sample of R. Kelly; "Rock Like That," with Bun B, gives him a chance to sling greasy rhymes over a hard beat.

It warned that Cape Breton's beloved music tradition was in trouble: the younger generation seemed to prefer the hard beat of modern rock to the sophisticated melodies of its Scottish forebears.

They left the piano in the restaurant, and when they went down the elevator and out and turned in to the old, hard, beat-up pavement of Fifth Avenue and headed south toward Forty-fifth Street where the pigeons were, the air was as clean as your grandfather's howitzer.

But when it comes to newer acts, the list reveals an unexpected obsession with hard, beat-driven music: apparently he has been listening to the severe German minimalist Wolfgang Voigt; the off-kilter house-music producer Moodymann; and the futuristic dance-music duo Basement Jaxx.

Hard beats propel chase scenes.

Traffic at mall stores has taken an especially hard beating.

The chorus has lilting synths that lift her vocals and contrast them with the hard beats.