syncopation


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Synonyms for syncopation

(phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in 'fo'c'sle' for 'forecastle')

a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat

music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm

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Book 1 offers "Hurry Up!" and "Sidewalk Strut," both rock-based with some syncopation. Book 2 has "Amen Corner," a delightful gospel/blues piece.
The Meydan Racecourse has been his favourite, so to speak, and the American showed that, landing the Emirates Skywards with Syncopation, Arabian Adventures with Big Brown Bear and Emirates Airline with Stunned.
If you want to know what it's about, imagine if the Red Hot Chili Peppers were raised not in Los Angeles but in Tel Aviv, which means not only the sort of syncopation that mimics stop-and-go traffic but also the funk that comes from living in a country where every encounter has the potential to grow very intense.
In papers filed in New York, owners of the Motown legend's work claim Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud has the "same melody, rhythms, harmonies, drums, bassline, backing chorus, tempo, syncopation and looping".
"Xylophone" is composed around the concept of syncopation -- accentuating weaker beats to mess with a rhythm a bit and make it more complex.
In "Marimba," the accented upper line creates the hemiola with a group of three notes in syncopation against the groups of two.
This syncopation combined with frequent meter changes gives this movement a sense of forward motion from beginning to end.
1970 Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knocking was a popular rhythm and blues song with emphatic syncopation, written by Dave Bartholomew and Earl King (under the pen name Pearl King) and published in 1955.
While Syncopation's debut LP on Audio Ashram will give you the right persuasion for smooth moves on the dance floor, Dualist Inquiry's Doppelganger will make you wish that the cloud of righteous trance lasts forever.
The reggae spin on New Pilot's song "Stuttering" is fascinating, the syncopation of which creates an engaging effect with John Wheeler's roots-soaked voice.
We fear broken window, fraud, we find happiness in the syncopation of
doesn't matter if it's true" The style of the song is jazzy, with instructions sometimes to use "jazz 8ths" and features jazz harmonies and much syncopation in both vocal lines and piano, as well as an after-beat pattern in the piano, left hand.
Among the topics are kakva and cakva as two knives from northeast Anatolia, assigning a matrix language in Turkic language contacts, the copula in the Eastern Black Sea dialects, dialects and peoples in Orhan Kemal's Adana novels, two types of complement clauses in Turkish, sociolinguistic and ethno-linguistic aspects of Turkish texts in Georgian script, inalienability and syncopation in Turkish, converbs as depictive secondary predicates in South Siberian Turkic, two velar verb suffixes as the intimate parts of Altaic, and some examples from Inner Asian of internal contact between Turkic languages.
"They use driving syncopation, dovetailing leads and flying meter changes, all to beautiful advantage."
But occasionally we welcome a contrast, a syncopation against the rhythm.