Beat. Attack by hitting repeatedly. This is the original meaning. Be first to get or reach something. This is derived from the idea of winning a fight. Beat (acoustics), the oscillation between zero intensity and full intensity that occurs when two frequencies (which are not harmonically related) are added together, caused by alternating constructive and destructive interference of the pressure waves. Beat (hip hop), a produced hip hop composition for MC

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Binaural beats are heard when the right ear listens to a slightly different tone than the left ear. Here, the tones do not interfere physically, but are summed by the brain in the olivary nucleus. This effect is related to the brain's ability to locate sounds in three dimensions. There are also those who believe that the beats can be used to "entrain" the brain to a desired state. ...

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A beat is a pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece; when you tap your foot to music, each tap is a beat. Depending on the context, beat may denote either the onset of the corresponding time unit, a point in time, the very moment when the tapping foot hits the floor, or the complete time interval between two consecutive taps, so to say, or in popular music, the whole sequence of individual beats (in the ...

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Bantam, Baptism, Bar , Barber, Barefoot, Barley-field, Barmaid, Barn, Barometer , Barrel, Baseball, Basement, Basin, Basket, Bass Voice , Baste, Bath, Bathroom, Bats , Battle, Bay Tree, Bayonet, Beacon-light, Beads , Beans, Bear, Beard , Beat

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There is typically very little mention of women in a history of the early Beat Generation, and a strong argument can be made that this omission is largely a reflection of the sexism of the time rather than a reflection of the actual state of affairs. The poet and anarchist Elsa Gidlow, who hitchiked from New York (where she had lived in Greenwich Village) to the San Francisco area in 1940, is representative of independent-minded women in the 'bohemian background' of the popularly recognized Beat Generation. Gidlow later became an integral membe ...

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Bad beats can be infuriating, but the thing to keep in mind is that "Alice" actually wants "Bob" to play in this manner. Bob took a gamble that should not have worked; his odds, after all, were 990-to-1 against. It worked, just this once, but if he continues to play in such a careless manner, he will almost certainly lose more than he wins. He is essentially giving away his money—and if Alice is careful, it will all go to her. Thus, the more stoic poker players accept bad beats as an unpleasant but necessary drawback to a tactic tha ...

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See main article: binaural beats. Binaural beats are heard when the right ear listens to a slightly different tone than the left ear. Here, the tones do not interfere physically, but are summed by the brain in the olivary nucleus. This effect is related to the brain's ability to locate sounds in three dimensions. There are also those who believe that the beats can be used to "entrain" the brain to a desired state. ...

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The term beat generation was introduced by Jack Kerouac in approximately 1948 to describe his social circle to the novelist John Clellon Holmes (who published an early novel about the beat generation, titled Go, in 1952, along with a manifesto of sorts in the New York Times Magazine: "This is the beat generation"). The adjective "beat" (introduced by Herbert Huncke) had the connotations of "tired" or "down and out", but Kerouac added the paradoxical connotations of "upbeat", "beatific ...

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Beats per minute (bpm) is a unit typically used as either a measure of tempo in music, or a measure of one's heart rate. A rate of 60 bpm means that one beat will occur every second. One bpm is equal to 1/60 Hz. Beats per minute became common terminology in popular music during the disco era because of its usefulness to DJs, and remain important in dance music. Hip-hop typically uses a BPM tempo of 70-110, while house music is faster: 110 -140BPM. Jungle music goes even faster: 140-190, while Gabba tops it with above-200 BPM and Speedcore with 200-700 BPM. These values are general guid ...

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Binaural beats or binaural tones are low-frequency pulsations in the perceived loudness of a sound when two tones at slightly different frequencies are played separately, one into each of the subject's ears, using binaural headphones. The frequency of the tones must be below about 1,000 to 1,500 hertz. The difference between the two frequencies must be small (approximately below 30 Hz) for the effect to occur; otherwise the two tones will be distinguishable and no beat will be perceived. The ef ...

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In acoustics, a beat is an interference between two sounds of slightly different frequencies, perceived as periodic variations in volume whose rate is the difference between the two frequencies. For example, let's take a guitar (an electric one, so that the sound lasts longer), and pick for example the two treblest strings, B and E. Our ear hears the two notes separately, and realizes that the total sound is even pleasant. Suppose now we start to tighten the B string more and more, to raise its frequency up to the E. Sup ...

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In American English, "beating a dead horse" is an idiom which is most often used as a retort used to make clear that a particular request or line of conversation is already foreclosed, mooted, or otherwise resolved. In Australian English and British English, the phrase is more usually rendered as "flogging a dead horse". The linguistic roots of this phrase draw on an allusion to literally "whipping" or "beating" a deceased horse in order to make it get up and go. Such efforts, of course, would be utterly fruitless, as dead horses no longer move under their own power. Likewise, when one is "beatin ...

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The term Beatnik was first coined by Herb Caen in an article published by the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 1958. Caen coined the term by essentially Russifying the earlier term, Beat generation. The description beat generation was an earlier label invented ca. 1948 by renowned author, Jack Kerouac. Caen coined the term, beatnik, shortly after the historical launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik and also at the end of the highly anti-communist McCarthy era of American politics. As such, this was an era of intense ...

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A break is an instrumental or percussion section or interlude during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main parts of the song or piece. For example, in DJ parlance, a break is where all elements of a song (e.g., pads, basslines, vocals), except for percussion, disappear for a time. (Not be be confused with a breakdown.) In hip-hop and electronica, a short break is also known as "the drop", and is sometimes accented by cutting off even the percussion. It may be described as wh ...

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4-beat Whilst ambiguous as a term, 4-beat only indicated that this style - unlike jungle music and its earlier breakbeat hardcore predecessor - used a common if somewhat insignificant four beats to the bar bass drum complementing the obligatory breakbeats. 4-beat does not mean it was void of breakbeats - a common error assumed by most. Artists at the forefront of this style refused to call the style as happy hardcore, rather they used the 4-beat term. DJ Seduction - a leading English producer since 1991 - said that, "House led to hardcore, which led to Drum N Bass and 4-beat (I hate calling it Happy H ...

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Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs and other musical ensembles often have conductors; as do military bands, whose title is more usually bandmaster. A conductor resident with an orchestra (as opposed to a guest conductor) who has involvement with the artistic direction of an orchestra or opera company is sometimes known as a musical director, or nowadays by the German word Kapellmeister. Choir conductors are sometimes called choral direc ...

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The video for "Beat It" follows an uncomplicated narrative: it opens in a diner, where two men walk outside (the music begins when the doors slam shut behind them) and then the members of two warring gangs gather and march to a "rumble" at a warehouse. Throughout, Jackson appears as a lone figure, eventually arriving at the warehouse just as the gang leaders (one of whom portrayed in a white outfit and sunglasses by choreographer Peters) are engaged in a knife fight. Viewers watching closely can see elements of another early-to-mid 1980’s ...

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Definition and meaning of Beats:

Beats

Nonconformists in the late 1950s who came together in large cities to reject conventional dress and sexual standards and cultivate poetry, jazz, and folk music; also known as beatniks.

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In the years directly preceding "Beat It", Jackson had already composed several of his own hit songs. His Off the Wall album, released in 1979 and produced by Quincy Jones, featured two of his compositions – "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" and "Working Day and Night" – as well as a third co-written with Louis Johnson, "Get On the Floor". (Similarly, the Jacksons 1978 album Destiny showcased his smash hit song "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" and 1980's Triumph had the even more prescient "This Place Hotel".) I ...

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