Examples of syncopate

• 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.