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  • Thumbnail for Beat (music)
    the "Offbeat is [often] where the downbeat is replaced by a rest or is tied over from the preceding bar". The downbeat can never be the off-beat because...
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  • publication was established in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. It is named after the "downbeat" in music, also called "beat one", or the first beat of a musical measure...
    43 KB (2,138 words) - 23:47, 12 July 2024
  • against a floor or each other to create audible rhythms, usually to the downbeat with the heel keeping the rhythm. Clogging is the official state dance...
    7 KB (739 words) - 04:54, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clifford Brown
    jazz standards. Brown won the DownBeat magazine Critics' Poll for New Star of the Year in 1954; he was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1972. Brown...
    23 KB (2,561 words) - 21:26, 30 June 2024
  • 4 time (𝄆1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 𝄇), the chosen guitar chord is played on the downbeat (indicated by numbers), and then a ghost note is played on the upbeat...
    6 KB (707 words) - 23:21, 4 December 2023
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    harmonics. As of 2017, he was the only one of seven bassists inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame to have been known for their work on the electric bass...
    41 KB (4,309 words) - 23:53, 1 August 2024
  • music, the last beat in the previous bar which immediately precedes the downbeat Anacrusis, a note (or sequence of notes) which precedes the first downbeat...
    707 bytes (130 words) - 09:21, 30 October 2022
  • during the same time period, with Stan Getz. In 1954 and 1955, he won the DownBeat Critics' Poll for guitar. Raney worked in a variety of jazz mediums,...
    10 KB (943 words) - 08:03, 31 March 2024
  • syncopated than the Gershwins previous efforts yet still "keeps the voice off the downbeat". Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin...
    2 KB (242 words) - 04:22, 15 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Jackie McLean
    bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the DownBeat Hall of Fame in the year of their death. McLean was born in Harlem, New...
    25 KB (1,440 words) - 12:31, 22 July 2024
  • by the quartet, with Archie Shepp added as a second tenor player, at the DownBeat Jazz Festival at Soldier Field in Chicago, which was described by Ben...
    11 KB (1,296 words) - 15:21, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Baby Dodds
    In 2010, DownBeat magazine's Veterans Committee inducted Dodds into the DownBeat Hall of Fame. The Veterans Committee specifically looks at jazz artists...
    20 KB (2,714 words) - 19:30, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Max Roach
    daughter Maxine Roach, a Grammy nominated violist. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992. In...
    41 KB (3,225 words) - 05:33, 31 July 2024
  • The Downbeat 5 (not to be confused with Tommy Pollard's Downbeat Five) is a Boston-based rock band started in 1999 by former DMZ guitarist J. J. Rassler...
    5 KB (400 words) - 20:37, 9 April 2023
  • features a backing vocal consisting of a heavy breathing sound, made on the downbeat during verses. It also features the title in a spoken-word style at the...
    13 KB (1,157 words) - 17:02, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Michael Brecker
    doctorate from Berklee College of Music in 2004, and was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame in 2007. Brecker was born in Philadelphia and raised...
    36 KB (3,670 words) - 13:53, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Funk
    with James Brown's development of a signature groove that emphasized the downbeat—with a heavy emphasis on the first beat of every measure ("The One")...
    96 KB (12,120 words) - 14:21, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Denny Zeitlin
    recorded more than 100 compositions and was a first-place winner in the DownBeat International Jazz Critics' Poll in 1965 and 1974. He composed the soundtrack...
    21 KB (1,422 words) - 01:00, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christian Howes (musician)
    College of Music. He has worked with Les Paul and Greg Osby. In 2011 the DownBeat magazine Critics' Poll ranked him the No. 1 Rising Star in violin. Confluence...
    2 KB (108 words) - 04:39, 29 October 2022
  • any point in a piece of music that changes the listener's sense of the downbeat is a point of syncopation because it shifts where the strong and weak...
    19 KB (1,781 words) - 01:46, 27 March 2024
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