Examples of backbeat

• The third variation is a heavily syncopated deconstruction of the main theme with a lumbering jazzy backbeat.

• One review notes that it easily and off-handedly incorporates funk and rock elements without becoming a collection that is dominated by a backbeat aesthetic.

• The "habanera rhythm" can be thought of as a combination of tresillo and the backbeat.

• It was a big ballad with a heavy backbeat, and although many artists have cut songs like it since, no one was doing it then.

• In general, he is one of the few hard rock drummers to combine a driving backbeat with jazz-like flourishes.

• The pattern marks the clave by accenting the backbeat on the two-side.

• The song features heavy breathing with a backbeat.

• Then there's the reggae-blues of the title trick, which swings out of a jazzy backbeat into a rootsier inner circle type groove.