When listening to a song, you may find yourself tapping your foot or moving in a regular manner. If so, you were responding to the "beats" of the music. Beats are the regular, repeated pulses underlying a piece of music.
When listening to a piece of music we usually feel some beats more strongly than others, so that we can count a recurring pattern of loud and soft, or "accented" and "unaccented" beats. (an accent is a stress placed on a note or beat). For example, in a march we could count a ONE-two pattern, the ONE being the accented note and the beginning of the bar. The accented note is a downbeat note. In a waltz the pattern would be ONE-two-three. Most songs have a ONE-two-three-four pattern.
The patterning of beats into repeated groups is called "metre". The unit of time occupied by one group of beats (that is, from one accented beat to the next) is called a bar. Metre provides a framework of bars within the sounds and silences of music occur.
Therefore, a downbeat is the start of a beat bar, the start of a metre. It is stressed or accented, like the ONE in ONE-two-three-four.
An upbeat is the end of a metre, or the notes proceeding the downbeat, and isn't stressed or accented
an upbeat or a pickup note.
Upbeat in Music was created on 1943-11-30.
Fast, upbeat background music
All of them.
XTC has been widely known for its upbeat fusion music of rock, blues, jazz and punk all rolled into one. Most all of their songs have an upbeat quality to them.
No, the word upbeat is not an adverb.The word upbeat is an adjective and a noun.
The Upbeat was created in 1985.
an upbeat or a pickup note.
Upbeat Records was created in 2007.
The duration of Upbeat in Music is 1020.0 seconds.
Upbeat Love was created on 2008-11-03.
Down Upbeat was created on 1984-07-24.
Upbeat in Music was created on 1943-11-30.
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