downbeat

The start of the next phrase fall exactly on the downbeat.

However, in some cases, the downbeat may not be emphasized.

In both cases, the rock step always starts on the downbeat.

We open our music books, wait for the downbeat, and watch the conductor.

He held his ground, again waiting for that almost mystical downbeat.

"I have to learn visual cues and be clear about downbeats."

But it's easier to tell a downbeat, even scary, story than any of us would like.

Each line has two bars, say, but the downbeat comes on the last note of the bar rather than the first.

He was looking into the Talisman, waiting for the downbeat.

I told them it's all syncopated and you have to keep the downbeat in your mind.

When you needed a downbeat, he was hard to follow, but we got used to it."

He started to give it the heavy downbeat of ragtime.

That race summary sounds sad, but few things in her life ever seem downbeat.

And the downbeat is probably some kind of a charge motion at a wild animal.

First, a downbeat from the Secretary General at the international date line.

"I always want them to know where one is," he says, referring to the downbeat of a musical measure.

The album gained a 3 star review in Downbeat magazine.

Downbeats within a measure are called 1, 2, 3.

Fog was streaming away from the downbeat of the great wings.

This emphasis on the downbeat has a funny way of changing your perception.

Eve gives a downbeat for the first bar, which is played only by the white orchestra.

He reasoned "there are the downbeats, and then you need the relief in the tension."

The patterns start traditionally on the downbeat of one.

Bob Woodruff stood in the wings, bobbing on the downbeats.

The downbeat is the impulse that occurs at the beginning of a bar in measured music.