Crossword clues for backbeat
Wiktionary
alt. (context music English) The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time. n. (context music English) The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time.
WordNet
n. a loud steady beat
Wikipedia
Backbeat is a 1994 Anglo- German drama film directed by Iain Softley. It chronicles the early days of the Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe ( Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon ( Ian Hart), and also with Sutcliffe's German girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr ( Sheryl Lee). It has subsequently been made into a stage production.
Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story is the biography of pioneer rock and roll drummer Earl Palmer. The book is by music journalist Tony Scherman with a foreword by Wynton Marsalis. More than half the text is directly quoted from Palmer, making the book as much an autobiography as it is a biography.
The story begins with Palmer as a four-year-old vaudeville tap dancer and continues with the story of New Orleans music and the emergence of a strong rock and roll drumming style featuring the back beat. After his triumphs in the city, Palmer moved to Los Angeles, where he became one of the top session musicians and arrangers of the 1950s through the 1970s, playing on hundreds of hits, from " La Bamba" to Percy Faith and Frank Sinatra.
The sections quoting Palmer are colorful, frank, and direct, giving the full flavor of his life as a musician. For example, speaking of playing on Little Richard's records:
"Richard's music was exciting as a sumbitch. I'm not talking about the quality of it. It wasn't quality music. It wasn't no chords. It was just blues. "Slippin' and Slidin'" sounded like "Good Golly Miss Molly" and they both sounded like "Lucille". It was exciting because he was exciting. Richard is one of the few people I've ever recorded with that was just as exciting to watch in the studio as he was in performance."The book includes an extensive discography and notes.
Backbeat is the original soundtrack of the 1994 film Backbeat starring Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, Gary Bakewell and Ian Hart. The music was produced by Don Was. A score based album with Don Was' original music was also released.
The album won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music.
"The Backbeat Band" consists of:
- Dave Pirner ( Soul Asylum): vocals
- Greg Dulli ( The Afghan Whigs): vocals
- Thurston Moore ( Sonic Youth): guitar
- Don Fleming ( Gumball): guitar
- Mike Mills ( R.E.M.): bass guitar
- Dave Grohl ( Nirvana/ Foo Fighters): drums
Backbeat is a rhythmic accentuation on even beats.
Backbeat may also refer to:
- Backbeat, a biography of pioneer rock and roll drummer Earl Palmer
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Backbeat (film) (1994), chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany
- Backbeat (soundtrack), original soundtrack of the 1994 film Backbeat
- Electro backbeat, musical genre
- Back Beat Records, record label
- Backbeat Books, an imprint of Hal Leonard Corporation
- The BackBeat Series of headphones from Altec Lansing
- Back beat (music), a musical groove with a non-traditional accent
- Backbeat, a 2013 Los Angeles stage play about the early Beatles, co-written by Iain Softley and Stephen Jeffreys, based on the 1994 Backbeat film.
- The Backbeats, a vocal group on The Sing Off (2010)
Usage examples of "backbeat".
He told me the longer riffs derived from classic sizz, while the backbeat was pure Transkei rip-rap.
Music was playing, a primitive backbeat of drums behind screaming guitars.
His style reminded me of the guy with the great backbeat on the old Jimmy Reed records.
There was a wall of noisethe backbeat, the bass, the wail of a guitar riff.
What he was after was a steady, uncomplicated beat: a thumping backbeat, Jimmy called it.
The blade struck it squarely in the face, but the creature only withdrew with a backbeat of its wings.
By the time they reached the bottom of the stairs, they recognized the percussive backbeat of music.
Ignoring the hypnotic beauty of the singing, he stomped forward, purposefully mismatching the rhythm of his steps and the backbeat of the chant.
Her door opened to the Hoyt Street face of the projects, in sight of traffic, cars rolling by with the booming systems, backbeat rattling windows, the cops cruising too, ominously hushed in their Giuliani Task Force vans.
Thauglor backbeat his wings once, curled the tips to steer and brake for one last, deft instant, and landed delicately on the great bole, his talons closing with almost fastidious care.
The throb rose sharply into a harsh, reverberating yowl, then lapsed into an almost rocklike three-quarter-time backbeat behind a moody chord sequence in B-flat.
He ran the slide back down the frets, pausing to jiggle it on the eighth and third frets, then shot it back up the board again, at the same time touching the chord sequencer to repeat the backbeat he had programmed a couple of minutes earlier.
The place was as big as one of those warehouse club megastores and was packed wall-to-wall with Long Island office workers hot-wiring weekend self-images in Hathaway suits, with big-haired girls in sequined jackets and leggings, limbs jangling gold chains on the crashing backbeat of music that braced you like a high wind.
The music played on, a long tapestry of soft flute-noises and droning chords that made him think of the wind moaning around mountaintops, but with a strange little backbeat that kept surfacing and then fading down into the mix again.
It rose and fell in pitch and shifted with eerie precision between subtle backbeats, filling the air with a sort of calming energy.