Mr. Simon found ways to bring out the tricky rhythms in older songs, too.
"How do you grow with easy things?" During a rehearsal led by the company's ballet master, Keith Saunders, the dancers fought to master the work's tricky rhythms.
With its complex harmonies, tricky rhythms and blistering tempos, the new music posed challenges to all musicians, but some instruments were better suited to its demands than others.
The all-white, all-female trio Northern State specializes in old-fashioned hip-hop, evoking a mythical time before the genre was allegedly ruined by all the usual ills: materialism, sexism, internal rhyme, tricky rhythms.
So Solid's style is all tricky rhythms and rapid-fire vocals, faster and more furious than the sum of its parts; the group makes some of the least dreamy dance music on the planet.
On "Please Believe It" (Velocette), the Party of Helicopters charges through unusual chord progressions and tricky rhythms, with Joe Dennis's plaintive vocals and arch lyrics cutting through all the complexity.
"Say My Name," which helped revolutionize R & B with tricky rhythms and nimble vocals, stands as one of the great pop songs of the last decade, but singing along is nearly impossible.
B-96 started playing his music again not because Mr. Cavanah suddenly became convinced that Mr. Kelly was innocent, but because "Ignition (Remix)" was so irresistible; its simple keyboard line and lazy backbeat keep time while Mr. Kelly sings counter-melodies and tricky rhythms.
The piano is treated extremely percussively in this work, and the pianists have to deal with tricky rhythms, complicated harmony and a towering mountain of notes.
Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly was complimentary towards Timbaland, producer of the song, writing that Timbaland offers "tougher, trickier rhythms, minimal live playing, a plethora of hip-hop cameos, and a self-consciously hard, edgy club sensibility" to "SexyBack".
Having never heard it before and only having the sheet music to hand, he becomes horribly stuck on the tricky vocal rhythm in the chorus.
