beat, accented

An accent is a change of the sounds of the second language, often the result of the influence of the first language. For example, an English speaker might produce French with English “r” sounds. Accents result from more than just poor muscular coordination.

Syncopation in music is the concept of playing rhythms that accent or emphasize the offbeats. It shifts or displaces a standard rhythm by stressing beats generally not stressed. The time signature of a piece of music identifies a consistent pattern of strong and weak beats.

There may be syncopations, which is where a normally weak beat is accented, or an off-beat (a note between beats) is accented. This could be a dynamic accent (louder sound), as well as a harmonic one (chord changing at the same time). There may be "accented non-chord tones" which are dissonances placed on strong beats.

pulse In music, we call the heartbeat the “pulse” - it's the thing that you feel, just like when you feel your heartbeat. (Pulse and beat are interchangeable, really, though pulse is used to describe beats in a more general, non-specific sense.) in music, we show the pulse with a symbol called a “quarter note”.

I spoke rather good, but heavily accented English. 'Don't do that,' he says in his soft, accented voice. Her French was slurred and oddly accented. His English was heavily accented.

: spoken or written with an accent. an accented syllable. a person who speaks slightly/heavily accented English.

Using accents is just one way to add emphasis to certain beats, hats, basslines, or notes. There are many other techniques that can be used to add groove and expression to your music, such as using swing quantization, or automating the volume or pan of certain tracks or notes.

Although the terms are used interchangeably, in the strictest, most distinct sense of the word, rhythm is groups of notes of different duration, while meter is the overall "feel" of a song as far as which beats are accented and unaccented.

The first accented beat of each metric pattern is known as the onbeat.

poetry. accent, in prosody, a rhythmically significant stress on the syllables of a verse, usually at regular intervals.

Beat is the underlying pulse of a piece of music, while rhythm is the pattern of notes and accents that create the musical texture. Beat is the steady pulse that gives a piece of music its structure, while rhythm is the way the notes are arranged and played.

In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).