Sentence examples for over a drum from inspiring English sources
Hip-hop can be a hard sell as live theatre: a rapper shouting over a drum track isn't much to look at.
He walked through the shack, where three men and a woman sat nursing beers and cooking delicious-smelling chicken over a drum fire.
For example, I'm never quite sure why Grant spends some of the film dressed as a pilot, or how he ends one brief worm-slaying scene by falling over a drum kit.
The new songs that push that subtext out front — which include the album's singles, the ballad "Brand New Me" (one of three self-actualizing, semi-autobiographical narratives written with the Scottish songwriter Emeli Sandé) and the preening title song, laid over a drum thwack based on Billy Squier's "The Big Beat" — quickly grow trite, in words and music.
At the Cooper Tire plant in Findlay, Ohio, Jack Hartley, who is 58, works a 12-hour shift assembling tires: pulling piles of rubber and lining over a drum, cutting the material with a hot knife, lifting the half-finished tire, which weighs 10 to 20 pounds, and throwing it onto a rack.
"Waiting Room", a song written and sung with Prince for Return of Saturn, evokes his R&B style over a drum and bass beat.
At times during the set, when he floated a slow chant over a fast drum rhythm or when he improvised some Afro-Cuban chanting, something was being enacted.
Abbess Yin walked over to a drum about two feet in diameter and picked up two wooden sticks lying on top.
Drawing on the energy of rara, this style of music called mizik rasin (roots) was built on culturally oriented, politically charged lyrics, choral chants, trance-inducing vodou drumming over a drum-machine pulse, and psychedelic lead guitar.
"We don't want your tiny hands anywhere near our underpants," she sings over a drum-line beat, pairing the vulgarity of Trump's "grab 'em by the pussy" with the prudishness of the term "underpants," as if to echo in her rhyme the childishness of its target.
She had written the songs and programmed the synthesizers, played by three musicians, which blended thickly together over a drummer's dry tribal rhythms.
