enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Beat (music) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(music)

    Back beat [11] [12] Play ⓘ "It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it" – Chuck Berry, "Rock and Roll Music" A back beat, or backbeat, is a syncopated accentuation on the "off" beat. In a simple 4 4 rhythm these are beats 2 and 4. [13]

  3. Syncopation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncopation

    In music, syncopation is a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat.More simply, syncopation is "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm": a "placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur". [1]

  4. Backbeat (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbeat_(disambiguation)

    Backbeat is a rhythmic accentuation on even beats. Backbeat may also refer to: Backbeat, a biography of drummer Earl Palmer; Backbeat (1994), chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany Backbeat, original soundtrack of the 1994 film Backbeat; Back Beat Records, record label

  5. Rhythm guitar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_guitar

    A backbeat is a syncopated accentuation on the "off" beat. In a simple 4/4 rhythm these are beats 2 and 4. [2] Emphasized back beat, a feature of some African styles, defined rhythm and blues recordings in the late 1940s and so became one of the defining characteristics of rock and roll and much of contemporary popular music.

  6. List of rock genres - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rock_genres

    This is a list of rock music genres consisting of subgenres of popular music that have roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, and which developed into a distinct identity as rock music in the 1960s, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom. [1]

  7. Beat music - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_music

    Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music genre and developed around Liverpool in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The genre melded influences from British and American rock and roll, rhythm and blues, skiffle, traditional pop and music hall.

  8. Rimshot - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimshot

    A rimshot is a percussion technique used to produce an accented snare drum backbeat. ... it is also used for ballads in rock, pop, and country music. [2]

  9. Bo Diddley beat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Diddley_beat

    Bo Diddley beat takes its name from Bo Diddley and his eponymous song. The Bo Diddley beat is a syncopated musical rhythm that is widely used in rock and roll and pop music. [1] [2] [3] The beat is named after rhythm and blues musician Bo Diddley, who introduced and popularized the beat with his self-titled debut single, "Bo Diddley", in 1955.