Quotes About Syncopation

The devotional's parsimonious scale, melody, and syncopation feel like a part of her. Janaki, her Tamilian ayah who has been with her from the time she was a little girl in Calcutta, would sing it as she brushed Celeste's hair.

Tap is a school for syncopation that's also a school of song. "There's a dynamic that's used in tap dancing," explains Steve Ferrone, "that's the same as what you use when you're playing the drums. You build into the chorus. You have the introduction, the verse, all of that. I tap danced to 'Georgia,' slow. And I won a car doing it.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

I give 'em the hip, then I take it away.

It doesn't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing

Rock bands don't really swing... a lot of rock is stiff. They don't understand the feel, the movement, you know, the jungle of it all.

I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.

Jazz is the art of timing. It teaches you when. When to start, when to wait, when to step it up, and when to take your time—indispensable tools for making someone else happy.

The great thing about both Indian and Western pop music is that they're fast and have a beat.

When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.

well formed. 'Angi', Graham's most famous composition, first appeared on 3/4 AD, a 1961 Topic EP split with blues guitarist Alexis Korner. Based around a deceptively easy four-chord sequence, the plucking right hand appears to do the work of a jazz trio, the thumb maintaining a steady bass pulse while the rest of the fingers tweak out the tune's ruminative syncopations. Combined

All life is a rhythm, " she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before liferesumes.

I prefer playing in songs where I have a tempo, groove and harmonic map to hang on to.

It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm

The voluptuous chords of the wedding march done in blasphemous syncopation issued in a delirious blend from the trombones and saxophones--and

Sometimes it's a bit hard for a person to get the rhythm of music from the ear to the feet, but that's a matter of coordination.

All life is a rhythm," she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life resumes.

All life is a rhythm," she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life resumes." She picked up my machete. "Play something." She held the handle out. "Make music.

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess.