Sentence examples for on the first note from inspiring English sources

Wispelwey often lingers dangerously long on the first note of a measure, then sweeps impetuously through an ornament or a run.

She drew me, and the rest of the audience, in on the first note and there was no sitting still, no turning back.

Her father owned an acoustic guitar and was falteringly taking lessons; a lover of blues and soul, he would spin Edwin Starr's War while his daughters performed a carefully choreographed dance routine, leaping off the sofa on the first note.

On the contrary, the process outlined by the state's high court can conclude this episode on the first note of certainty since the conflicting exit-poll predictions on election night.

Mr. Gilbert's reading was more conventionally Germanic, but he added poetic touches of his own, starting with a slight lingering on the first note in the work's opening figure.

"It's based on what's on the first note," says Edward Fay, chief executive of Fay Financial, a Chicago-based mortgage servicer.

Varone gets things moving quickly: on the first notes, the full company of eight, in their casual earth-tone costumes (by Liz Prince), emerges from stage right and embarks on what comes to be seen as an epic struggle.

Take another post it note, face it in the same direction (still with the sticky side facing up), and overlap it over the other note so they're attached by the first notes sticky area, but all of the second sticky note that's not on the first notes sticky area is sticking out onto the table.

Those slaves recognized that the shots on Hatteras struck the first note of the fall of slavery along the Carolina and Georgia coasts.

And Mr. Morales did his best, keeping his head down in the high speed, hanging on to the eighth-notes for his life.

Hammer-ons are played by strumming one note and "hammering on" the second note above it by touching it without strumming.