Turning The Beat Around
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Turning the beat around, abbreviated as TBA in some music textbooks, is a form of temporary tactus or pulse (music) in popular
electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...
and electronic dance music. This includes forms of
syncopation In music, syncopation is a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat. More simply, syncopation is "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm": a "place ...
that issue a challenge to dancers to find the
downbeat ' (styled in all caps) is an American music magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chi ...
. In this terminology a "reverse TBA," involves the explicit contradiction of a previously established pulse.Mark Jonathan Butler ''Unlocking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music'' 0253346622 2006 "termed a "reverse TBA," is less dramatic than turning the beat around, which involves the explicit contradiction of a previously established pulse. A similar turn of events arises in measures 175-76 of "Communication" (not shown; 5:09-12), .. The term is to be distinguished from downtempo.


Examples

The concept of turning the beat around can be observed in The Strokes
''Automatic Stop''
as well as Passion Pit'
Little Secrets
Both songs begin with a melodic line that leads the listener to perceive the downbeat as being on the first beat of said melodic line, however, when ensuing lines commence, the pulse reveals itself to be elsewhere. The seminal melodies are only then clearly syncopated, relative to the true pulse.


References

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