Beat (music)#Backbeat

The Backbeat ( or After Beat, . Engl back or look-up ) is a anglicism for a figure of speech in music, especially the drums game in Western popular music, especially rock music as opposed to tend to be more rhythmic- monadic pop music, has now become a standard has become. Here, the even beats ( in 4/4-time ie 2 and 4), especially by the snare drum (snare drum) or the closed hi-hat are ( closed basin ) stresses.

History

The Backbeat was at first a rhythmic part of gospel music, where clapping and Tamburinbenutzung were stressed at 2 and 4 at 4/4-Takt-Schema. For the first time clearly used it came apparent upon Backbeat Boogie by Harry James (recorded on November 30, 1939), where he is played by the drums. When rockabilly rhythm emphasis is taken from the double bass. As a pioneer of the backbeat drums applies the session musician Earl Palmer, whose emphasis on The Fat Man by Fats Domino (10 December 1949) are first heard. This was the entrance to the backbeat rhythm and blues.

Marches and polkas have a backbeat on every Upbeat (one AND two AND ). In rock & roll, jazz, popular music, reggae and folk music usually the emphasis is usually on two and four, with ballad to three ( one, two, THREE, four). A downbeat is reached in which the snare drum backbeat is omitted.

After his dominance in the rock and roll of the backbeat dominates the rhythm emphasis in popular dance music.

Basic rhythm

The basic rhythm is usually the following: