0 (especially in rock music) an emphasis on one or two of the beats that are not normally emphasized
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.