"beat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Professor Longhair (Henry R. Byrd), a blues pianist with a rumba beat, was given featured billing at some of the early festivals and as a result his flagging career was revived.
- At the end of the set, when Papa Wemba sang his older Congolese dance tunes, with their buoyant rumba beat and gleaming guitars, the music suddenly sounded vital again.
- Using another traditional rumba beat, the columbia, they sang about the Catholic saints, including Barbara and Lazarus, who are associated with the Yoruba pantheon.
- They picked up the rumba beat, a two-part structure (a slow section with lyrics, followed by a faster dance section), and the use of parallel-harmony vocals, but reshaped the music with a lighter touch, moving the emphasis from percussion to melody.
- "Hound Dog" originally loped to a rumba beat, but Elvis Presley's version obscured it somewhat.
- He finished tuning, adjusted the rhythm box until it emitted a rumba beat, and said something unintelligible into the microphone.
- One song was paced by drums and modal patterns played on a marimba; the second shifted to a rumba beat and brought in the horns.
- His vision of soccer is pressure and passing, no booming kicks, no fancy dribbling, just the constant rumba beat of touch-trap-pass.
- Walk the mildewed neighborhoods of Centro Habana or Vedado and you'll soon pick up the scent - here a mysterious Santería ritual, there a couple of drummers pounding out a rumba beat.
- A corporal wearing an SP's armband helped her down, and from the distance she sensed the clunk and slap of a double bass and drums that tapped out a rumba beat.
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