0 to have a rhythm in which strong notes are not on the beat, or to create music that has this rhythm:
Her low drawl is syncopated with little clatters of laughter an octave higher.
I started trying to syncopate the line by transposing solos from people like Coltrane and Miles.
He syncopated the rhythms but didn't change his harmonic language much.
The flowing syncopated syntax reaches several unusual, finely coordinated tuttis, points of intensity and climax, which then lead into new paths, new combinations.
This is an attractive pattern because it provides four accents over two measures, and all except the initial downbeat are syncopated.
You cannot play jazz music as a pianoforte solo: if you perform syncopated dance music on the pianoforte it is ragtime, not jazz.
They were playing syncopated things that were meshing with the snare drum.
During the second recorded session there was evidence of further development of vocal technique, including unaccompanied close harmony singing and syncopated rhythms.
