Sentence examples for straight rhythm from inspiring English sources

We play the tune in a straight rhythm that is African-oriented, sometimes in swinging time, and also very slowly, with almost a Brazilian feel.

Captain Beefheart's music career stretched from 1966 to 1982, and from straight rhythm and blues by way of the early Rolling Stones to music that sounded like a strange uncle of post-punk.

In the video above, Rockets players such as Jeremy Lin, Carlos Delfino, and Patrick Patterson try to give their individual renditions of the Dreidel Song, only to trip over monosyllabic words like "play" or get lost in the straight rhythm of the song.

"For a long time, I've been playing in straight rhythms," Mitchell told her friend, Malka Marom, in 1973, in the first of the three extended interviews that are included in Both Sides Now, a new book published next month.

The truth is that hip-hop has had straight and swung beats since its inception (for classic hip-hop songs that employ "straighter" rhythms, listen to Run-D.M.C.'s "You Be Illin' " or Masta Ace's "Born to Roll").

For her to record songs like "I'm Old Fashioned" and "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" -- with a straight-ahead rhythm section, treating the songs with due respect and scat singing -- amounted to decent frisson.

Christgau also believed that Hendrix is limited by the straighter, simpler rhythm section, but added that "Who Knows" and "Machine Gun" "are as powerful if not complex as anything he's ever put on record".

Roney has his ear to the street, embracing hip-hop elements and eschewing straight-ahead rhythms.

His continual shifts between a straight 4/4 beat and limping dotted rhythms can be baffling, but they give Nelson the flexibility he is looking for.

He finds his rhythm straight after though.

"We've only played a warm-up game out here so far against the UAE, but I felt in pretty good rhythm straight away and clicked it up to a decent pace.