Syncopated in a sentence

Members of a local dance group 'Via Katlehong' perform 'Pantsula', a dance known for its syncopated, quick-stepping, low to the ground format at the Joburg Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, July 1, 2023.

And part of the reason for her success—with an emphasis on the word “part”—has been her freestyle stroke: nicknamed the “syncopated gallop,” or the “giddy-up” stroke.

As if he’s not busy enough, Myers also plays with the Symphonia Phonotone orchestra, which performs 1920s and 1930s syncopated jazz music around Sacramento and California.

Eva Slater’s 1954 “Galaxy” insets a syncopated network of painted forms within a wooden panel, merging optical motion with material stasis.

The Festival culminates on Sunday, Feb. 25, at 2 p.m., with an afternoon performance spotlighting the Syncopated Ladies and Los Angeles Ballet.

And even though trap-style skittering snares eventually show up, the song hardly includes any actual rapping … well, except by the modern, post-Drake, post-Post definition in which syncopated singing is rapping.

This syncopated sizzler was written by the magical mulatto brothers, Stony Browder (RIP) and August Darnell and bristles with the energy that is Kid and the gang.

Songwriter Adam Nordell performs acoustic folk music rich with imagery and human stories, and accompanies himself with five-string banjo, guitar and syncopated foot percussion.

That syncopated their cordiality, amity and harmonious relationship.

The syncopated pinch harmonics sound like what I imagine laser beams in a 1950s alien movie sounded like, and it adds an extraterrestrial vibe to the song that otherwise could have been a straight forward metalcore song.

And so she raps over dancehall, Brazilian baile funk, Afrobeats and ravey house – a blend of syncopated African, Caribbean and Latin-American rhythms united by Technicolor bombast.

Bed death, money issues, booze – the issues stack up, but the song never gets maudlin thanks to its simple syncopated guitar line keeping it up in the air.

Leading the grand charge for the music, was the popular Dennery Segment, a new sub-genre of Soca music, with its infectious syncopated drum and bass, Afro-Caribbean rhythms and a fusion of English and French Creole lyrics.

Like the claps in “My Best Friend’s Girl” or the syncopated interjections at the beginning of “Just What I Needed” and “Don’t Cha Stop,” ’ treatment of love, celebration, lust, jealousy, and loneliness never goes where you think it will.

According to some sources the name "ragtime" may come from the "ragged or syncopated rhythm" of the right hand.

And in 1975, he ushered in what became known as the Hip Hop style by rhyming syncopated to the beat of an existing record uninterruptedly for nearly a minute.

A rhythm that accents another beat and de-emphasises the down beat as established or assumed from the melody or from a preceding rhythm is called syncopated rhythm.

As Wynton Marsalis explains, citation the Big Four (below) was the first syncopated bass drum pattern to deviate from the standard on-the-beat march.

Berkenstadt; Cross, p. 67 Composition main "Smells Like Teen Spirit" follows a F–B –A –D chord progression, Rooksby, p. 133 with the main guitar riff constructed from four power chords played in a syncopated sixteenth note strum by Cobain.

Bolden's band is credited with creating the big four, the first syncopated bass drum pattern to deviate from the standard on-the-beat march. citation As the example below shows, the second half of the big four pattern is the habanera rhythm.