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In music, groove is the sense of an effect ("feel") of changing pattern in a propulsive rhythm or sense of "swing". In jazz , it can be felt as a quality of persistently repeated rhythmic units, created by the interaction of the music played by a band's rhythm section (e.g. drums, electric bass or double bass , guitar, and keyboards).
A Dictionary of Music and Musicians was first published in London by Macmillan and Co. [1] in four volumes (1879, 1880, 1883, 1889) edited by George Grove with an Appendix edited by J. A. Fuller Maitland in the fourth volume.
In drumming, a groove is a repeated phrase that sets and maintains the rhythm and tempo of the piece. Grooves and fills are the main components of the music played on a drum kit , and together with basic techniques or rudiments such as flams make up the curriculum for learning to play the drum kit.
The word originated in the jazz culture of the 1920s, in which it referred to the “groove” of a piece of music (its rhythm and “feel”), plus the response felt by its listeners. [1] It can also reference the physical groove of a record in which the pick-up needle runs.
Boogie is a repetitive, swung note or shuffle rhythm, [2] "groove" or pattern used in blues which was originally played on the piano in boogie-woogie music. The characteristic rhythm and feel of the boogie was then adapted to guitar, double bass, and other instruments. The earliest recorded boogie-woogie song was in 1916.
In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level [1] (or beat level). [2] The beat is often defined as the rhythm listeners would tap their toes to when listening to a piece of music, or the numbers a musician counts while performing, though in practice this may be ...
The relative volumes (loudness and softness) in the execution of a piece of music. Music with sudden changes in dynamics can be harder to mix in a live setting. To prevent sudden bursts of high volume, audio engineers can manually "ride the faders" (and rapidly decrease sudden loud parts, or use compression effects. DX-7
Groove (joinery), a slot cut parallel to the grain Grooves (magazine) , a music magazine Chevrolet Groove , a concept car model, then a sport utility vehicle model sold since 2020