percussively

He struck it again, percussively, and lifted his finger to cut off the note.

Occasionally, the hardware is used percussively as well, the most common example being a rim shot.

Even wind instruments are used percussively, puffing out a few notes at a time.

He quietly struck harmonics or played several notes at once, percussively.

Getting up, she danced so percussively that it became impossible to tell where music left off and choreography began.

He snapped his rhythms percussively and stretched them out.

Here, as elsewhere in Bartók's output, the piano is used percussively.

Builders also use less internal bracing to keep the top more percussively resonant.

In one way or another, right down to the percussively abrupt open ending, it's all about being hammered."

The music had no obvious precedents, and it generated its power percussively, with dense tangles of sound.

He made notes seem light and inflatable, and he swung percussively all by himself.

The earliest oil wells in modern times were drilled percussively, by hammering a cable tool into the earth.

Its size and construction influences the sound of the instrument as the curved body is often struck percussively with the plectrum during play.

It is similar in appearance to a cello, but it is played percussively.

Other instruments - guitars, trumpets, pianos - also functioned percussively.

They use their walkers percussively, in the same way that Astaire used his cane as a third leg in the 1930's, for support and sound.

His guitar tone is raw, with a distorted edge; sometimes he laughed, percussively, in the spaces between guitar lines.

He slapped the keys, percussively.

It utilizes a small adhesive speaker and is played percussively as well as with a violin bow.

He plays percussively, varying his dynamics, manipulating the texture of the notes by how hard he hits the strings.

Mr. Jarrett makes a fuller, clearer sound than Evans's more percussively varied style.

Back in the Aerie she popped her lips percussively as she examined her booty.

And when the other two bassists were improvising percussively or gesturally, he sometimes gave the music some more traditional, chordal backbone.

He sang percussively and copied for moments the closed-mouth rattling of the singer Mon Rivera.

Mr. Rivers uses the same introductory figure, but scored for saxophones and brass and delivered almost percussively.