How to Use backbeat in a Sentence

backbeat

noun

• 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 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
• While the first snare of the backbeat (on the second beat) remained prominent, a clear nod to Chicago and Atlanta, the second frequently failed to appear at all, or struck a beat later than expected.
  — Wayne Marshall, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2022
• Each axe or hammer blow rang out in rhythm to the tune, and as the tempo of that industrialized century increased, this would ultimately become the backbeat of rock and roll.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 5 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024