In popular music the bass part most often provides harmonic and rhythmic support, usually playing the root or fifth of the chord and stressing the strong beats.

Dance is a type of art that generally involves movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, performed in many different cultures and used as a form of expression, social interaction and exercise or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.

In many popular styles of music, such as rock and pop, the rhythm guitarist usually performs the chords in rhythmic fashion which sets out the beat or groove of a tune.

The piano tends to be used throughout as a percussive rhythmic backbone, while the electric guitar either joins in this role or spins filigree improvisations ; the double bass parts are usually of little interest, but provide an indispensable rugged thickness to the sound of the ensemble.

It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers, usually wearing bell pads on their shins.

This usually doubles an already rapid rhythmic pulse that may also co-exist with a counter-rhythm.

Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic, and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.

It usually also has a contrasting character ; in a march, for example, the highly rhythmic and strident character of the march itself is usually contrasted with a more lyrical and flowing trio in the subdominant, and often in a 3 / 4 time signature as opposed to the 4 / 4 of the primary march theme.

Beginning in the 15th century, both words came to be used also to describe rhythmic relationships, specifically the substitution ( usually through the use of coloration ) of three imperfect notes for two perfect ones in tempus perfectum or in prolatio maior.

Instruments, such as the Saraswati veena and / or venu flute, can be occasionally found as a rhythmic accompaniment, but usually, a vocalist is supported by a violin player ( who sits on his / her left ).

Swing is characterized by a strong rhythm section, usually consisting of double bass and drums, medium to fast tempo, and rhythmic devices like the swung note, which is common to most jazz.

However, Chopin also incorporated the rhythmic elements of the two other Polish forms mentioned above, the kujawiak and oberek ; his mazurkas usually feature rhythms from more than one of these three forms ( mazurek, kujawiak, and oberek ).

It is based on Pungmul musical rhythmic patterns and uses the same instruments, but is faster and usually played while sitting down.

English Elizabethan clown Will Kempe dancing a jig from Norwich to London in 1600A morris dance is a type of English folk dance, usually accompanied by music, and based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers, often using implements such as sticks, swords, and handkerchiefs.

Shanties were usually slow rhythmic songs designed to help with collective tasks on labour intensive sailing and later steam ships.

The two main types of work song in England are agricultural work songs, usually are rhythmic a cappella songs sung by people working on a physical and often repetitive task, like the ' Harvest song ' common in south-west England.

Though basslines may be played by many different types of instruments and in a broad musical range they are generally played on bass instruments and in the range roughly at least an octave and a half below middle C. In classical music such as string quartets and symphonies, basslines play the same harmonic and rhythmic role ; however, they are usually referred to as the " bass voice " or the " bass part.

** Marching, refers to the organized, uniformed, steady and rhythmic walking forward, usually associated with military troops

Zouk is very rhythmic, in creole it qualifies this music ( moving a lot ); this particular rhythm are in the songs of carnaval and it is danced usually without a partner.

A rhythmic and smooth style is usually considered to be ' good form '.

Marching refers to the organized, uniformed, steady and rhythmic walking forward, usually associated with military troops.

The talea in early isorhythmic compositions was usually a short sequence of only a few notes, often corresponding to a rhythmic mode.

This usually comprises a string section ( with violins, viola, and cello ), a bandoneón section ( with 3 or more bandoneons ), and a rhythmic section ( with piano, and double bass ).

In a ritualised movement, the Noisy Miner flies out from a perch across an open area, in a rhythmic undulating pattern, usually calling in flight.

Old School flows were relatively basic and used only few syllables per bar, simple rhythmic patterns, and basic rhyming techniques and rhyme schemes.

Oral narratives were often told in the form of rhyming or rhythmic verse, often including recurring sections or, in the case of Homer, Homeric epithets.

The rhythmic rhyming of vocals in Jamaican deejay toasting influenced the development of rapping in African-American hip-hop, and the development of the Dancehall style ( e. g. hip-hop pioneer and Jamaican expatriate DJ Kool Herc and Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest ).

The vocals are sung in a rhythmic, flat tone, very near to a speaking voice, and take the form of rhyming couplets.

Rapping ( also known as emceeing, MCing, spitting ( bars ), or just rhyming ) refers to " spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment ".

Such an arrangement is a balance between an exaggerated emphasis on the metre — which would cause the verse to be sing-songy — and the need to provide some repeated rhythmic guide for skilled recitation.

In poetry, metre ( meter in American English ) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.

The motet took a definite rhythm from the words of the verse, and as such appeared as a brief rhythmic interlude in the middle of the longer, more chantlike organum.

* Systems of scansion, the analysis of writing and verse regarding rhythmic and especially metrical structure

Meter or metre is a term that music has inherited from the rhythmic element of poetry ( Scholes 1977 ; Latham 2002b ) where it means the number of lines in a verse, the number of syllables in each line and the arrangement of those syllables as long or short, accented or unaccented ( Scholes 1977 ; Latham 2002b ).

The verse section can be short, or expanded to feature the lead vocalist and / or carefully crafted melodies with clever rhythmic devices.

In accentual-syllabic verse an iamb is a foot that has the rhythmic pattern:

Tang poetic forms include: lushi, a type of regulated verse with an eight-line form having five, six, or seven characters per line ; ci ( verse following set rhythmic patterns ); and jueju ( truncated verse ), a four-line poem with five, six, or seven characters per line.

— differ in detail among various verse traditions ; and because the individual languages supply words with different rhythmic characteristics ; this basic metrical template is realized with great variety by the languages that use it, and a sequence of syllables that is metrical in one verse tradition will typically not fit in another.

So the conventional patterns of accentual and accentual-syllabic English verse are perceived as regularly rhythmic, whereas to the listener, syllabic verse generally is not distinguishable from free verse.

Blok's early verse is musical, but he later sought to introduce daring rhythmic patterns and uneven beats into his poetry.

Stephen Fry quotes Robert Browning's The Lost Leader as an example of the use of dactylic metre to great effect, creating verse with " great rhythmic dash and drive ":

His poetry was written mostly in the melodic style of the 8-syllable accentual verse, the most popular rhythmic structure among the Polish stylistic variations, at 65 %.

Metrical poetry is a particularly rhythmic form, deriving its structure from patterns of phonetic features within and between the lines of verse.

Under the influence of the German Expressionists, Marsman made his literary debut about 1920 with rhythmic free verse, which attracted notice for its aggressive independence.

Each Tullal composition consists of a local Puranic tale retold in simple rhythmic verse, fit for loud recitation before an local audience.

This contrasts distinctly with the classic four-character verse of the Shi Jing, and adds a different rhythmic latitude of expression.