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/ˈbakˌbēt/,
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backbeats, plural;
  1. A strong accent on one of the normally unaccented beats of the bar, used esp. in jazz and popular music

  1. a loud steady beat
  2. 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.
  3. Backbeat is a 1994 film that chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe (played by Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (played by Ian Hart), and also with Sutcliffe's German girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr (played ...
  4. The beat is the basic time unit of music, the pulse of the mensural level , also known as the beat level . However, since the term is in popular use, it often connotes the tempo of a piece or a particular sequence of individual beats, the meter, rhythm or groove. ...
  5. 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.
  6. The sharp accent on the second and fourth beats of rock music in 4/4 time
  7. Beats 2 and 4 in 4/4 time, particularly when they are strongly accented. A term more used in rock 'n roll.
  8. The second and fourth beats of a four beat measure. The term also refers to a rhythmic pattern that strongly emphasizes these beats.
  9. or offbeat:  the 2nd and 4th quarter notes in 4/4 music.
  10. In jazz and pop music it's the term for the heavy continuous accent on beats 2 and 4.
  11. term used by some musicians for “syncopation.”