two-beat

American  

[too-beet] / ˈtuˌbit /

adjective

1. having four beats to the measure with the second and fourth beats accented.

   two-beat jazz.

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Example Sentences

There’s a two-beat bar at the beginning of the title lyric.

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He spent a day and a half mixing all of that into the two-beat stinger we know today.

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In a longer race, Ledecky more likely will rely on a light two-beat kick, meaning she’ll do one kick per arm stroke.

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She often will close the 800 and 1,500 with a six-beat kick, for example, and though she’s kicking hard throughout a 400, she might turn to a two-beat kick temporarily to conserve energy for a late push.

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In another city, a musician spent hours teaching Mr. Deppenschmidt the subtle, syncopated two-beat rhythm of the bossa nova, in which the drummer typically uses a brush in one hand, a stick in the other.

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