Sentence examples for straight notes from inspiring English sources

Mr. Yahel played straight notes over swung grooves and slow phrases over cruisingly fast bass and drums.

In front of Eric Revis on bass and Rodney Green on drums, each restrained and in support mode, Mr. Rosenwinkel employed the full range of his instrument in passing chords, reassuring links of slow and straight notes or startling blizzards.

(To her distress, I couldn't sing a straight note; despite all the leeks I have ever eaten, I still cannot sing). Grandmama also favored eggplants, another staple of Egyptian cuisine.

Tom Wilkinson, who won the best supporting actor award for a mini-series or television movie for HBO's "John Adams," tried to set them straight, noting that thank-yous, however heartfelt, "get a bit dreary".

They may have been too fond of a "Wilsonian faith that world opinion would force other governments to walk a straight line," Fromkin notes.

The only exception was the AbbVie data for Aβ42 which showed a mesor-to-peak amplitude of 4.29 % with 95%% confidence intervals that do not cross zero (0.71 7.87) suggesting a cosinor fit, but only a trend toward a difference with a straight line was noted (p = 0.06).

On each page a straight line connects each note to a central spot, creating a focal point of weight and intensity.

The distance to gas wells is then estimated by noting the straight line distance between house location and the nearest gas well.

Romm's 2010 book, Straight Up notes: "the bottom line is that the economic cost of action is low, whereas the cost of inaction is incalculably greater".

If you can hit the note on a straight tone, you can hit it with vibrato.

Above, we've used straight eighth notes for each of the "Hap - py"s in the song — that is, eighth notes where each note is played for the same amount of time.