Meanwhile the vocal lines jump around and dangle asymmetrically over the steady kick of funk and garage-rock beats.
It's deceptively simple, with a steady kick, a ticking snare, and a synth line spiking and falling within a single key.
As I eased into a steady kick-and-glide rhythm, the giant white hotel with its trademark red metal roof loomed above to the left.
It begins with strings, a steady kick, and Faith's voice, which is low and supplicating and then, after a few lines, wide open — a move that Whitney Houston perfected.
Anchored by a steady kick drum, it featured a cantering horn section playing what could have been a fragment from a ska record, and, every few minutes, what appeared to be a recording of a jet plane taking off.
The beat is of the era, with steady kick drums, but it feels gentle, and the producer throws in conga slaps, guitar figures, and synth blasts that don't always recur.
Virtually unchanged since the 1990s, trance is basically a gargantuan boom-chicka-boom with a steady kick-drum on every beat, and it's supremely adaptable: euphoric, martial, perky, ominous, indefatigable.
Since Spears can't compete in the persona category, she was wise to align herself with a movement that is driven by the consumer, by allowing thousands of teens to jump around in unison to steady kick drums and swooping bass.
But the Cats were able to steady, kicking the next three majors and then outscoring Adelaide by six goals to two in the final quarter - the most popular coming from Johnson who lifted the crowd into a frenzy with a brilliant mark in the goalsquare.
Most of his songs lack even a steady kick drum, but SOPHIE fans can still bob their heads to his phantom beats.
