How to Use backbeat in a Sentence

backbeat

noun

• The other half of the rhythm is the backbeat and kick relationship, or the downbeat and the backbeat.
  — Vulture, 16 Mar. 2022
• Rechtshaid added drums and moved the chorus over an eighth note, adding a backbeat.
  — Chris Payne, Billboard, 28 June 2019
• The chorus adds a pulsing bassline and sturdy backbeat, while Townes’ lyrics and melody get all the focus.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2021
• And Rick Marotta, Jim Keltner, all these guys played very much in the pocket, a very lazy backbeat.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2023
• Little Richard and Connor sometimes went to lengths to find the perfect backbeat for a song.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• All of this is present from the get-go in the title track, whose propulsive backbeat carries along a bevy of mixed emotions.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 18 Aug. 2020
• Vary the rhythms to incorporate two-beat, four-beat, a backbeat, and a five-note Black Bottom dance rhythm.
  — John Edward Hasse, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2018
• The Rolling Stones are touring again, this time without their heartbeat, or at least their backbeat.
  — Jim Salter, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2021
• One of those images spotlights the late Charlie Watts, the reliable backbeat of the Stones who died at age 80 last year.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 11 Jan. 2022
• Pedestrians who walk down ramps and steps that zigzag to the lower level are amazed to find the musician behind the backbeat.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2021
• George’s sensitivity and introspection draw you in close, and Ringo is the groove, the swing, the backbeat.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 27 May 2022
• There is the backbeat of cars whizzing down the busy street outside, the blare of J-rock over the speaker, and the constant whirring of several industrial fans.
  — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2021
• The molten Gruyere — placed in a ceramic bowl on a wire rack over a flaming tea candle — is redolent of white wine, cherry schnapps and garlic on the backbeat.
  — James Patrick Kelly, idahostatesman, 27 Apr. 2017
• Footie Mob offered fans the promise of a backbeat of Atlanta music, and sweet, smoky barbecue.
  — Timothy Pratt, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2017
• Delirious sounds pumping out of a Farfisa organ flutter and spin around a droning backbeat.
  — Travis M. Andrews, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Ideally the rhythm section of drums and bass keep the rhythms fairly simple and easy to latch onto, with a consistent backbeat on beats 2 and 4.
  — Ada Tsengassistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• Through it all, there's a backbeat of criticism from progressives who fear the court's slant to the right since the Trump Administration.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 9 Feb. 2022
• Bern hits hard on the cautionary title track, with a clapping backbeat and a humming horn section.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2019
• It’s the thrill of young hearts (and hormones) colliding feverishly and a backbeat powerful enough to drown out any doubts.
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2022
• Church is, and has always been, the community’s backbeat.
  — Alison Miller, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
• But a frisky track with a rockabilly backbeat and droll, squiggly pedal-steel fills are her best chance at getting away with it.
  — New York Times, 6 Apr. 2018
• Next to the original version, their backbeat is harder, the music just a little bit gnarlier.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2022
• All of this creates a thrumming, threatening backbeat to the story, and we’re certainly shown every contour of the crimes, too.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 8 July 2023
• Back in the '90s the Philly outfit was making a type of semi-gritty rap-inflected soul-rock with lots of guitars jangling and slashing in front of cracking backbeats.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• The crowd was already there to hang on Khalid’s every word, but his persistently earnest nature and the forceful backbeat from the band drove things forward with some urgency.
  — Amy Young, azcentral, 21 June 2019
• The splashing of children in the irrigation canals and the sloshing of water jugs being carted home provided the backbeat of summer life.
  — Alissa J. Rubin Bryan Denton, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• The backbeat of the Twitter Files is a heightened sensitivity to the power of information.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2023
• The glossy keyboard chords, the backbeat highlighted by synthesizer slides and the layered backup voices all come out of 1980s-vintage Jackson, and haven’t lost their lift.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
• Popular moods and tones are more dominant on this recording, with Cobbs’s rolling chords meshing with a backbeat, a rollicking march, and jaunty blues.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022
• Kesha’s music was powered by the backbeat of Dr. Luke, a producer who’d helped set the template for 2000 club-pop and who’d been groomed by Max Martin, the most important architect of hits for a few decades now.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024