And now once more they gave us Eastern music, awful stuff, pulsating with a distant drumbeat like the tramp of an army of devils.
Captain Daniels marched to the dining-room door, his gold-headed cane marking time like a drumbeat.
From that day the flag flew regularly over the rocky shelf, and, in time, bugles and morning drumbeats were wafted from it to the decks of passing ships.
Slower still they went, while the drumbeats became louder, until they seemed to fall upon their own ear-drums.
Through the roaring in his ears he thought he heard drumbeats, and the fanfare of a trumpet, and voices.
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Like a steadydrumbeat, the answer in every chapter is the impending workforce shortage.
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Often, the rhetoric of security and thedrumbeatof panic and emergency will win the day.
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Now, the drumbeats of war can be heard.
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I welcome the fact that the drumbeats in the jungle suggest that the carrier size has gone back up to 60,000 tonnes.
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The song is noted for its militaristicdrumbeat, simple but harsh guitar, and melodic harmonies.
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Cross-stick technique on the snare drum is commonly used, and tom-tom drums are often incorporated into thedrumbeatitself.
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The mid-to-up-tempo recording featured a steadydrumbeat, synthesizer, and guitar, with a repeated saxophone riff framing the lyrical message.
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The band's post-punk guitar riffs and driving drumbeats combined with catchy lyrics create a fresh poppy-rock sound that is both infectious and fun.
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A guitar solo is present and a relatively simpledrumbeatdrives the song along.
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The result is a surge of scribbly, dissonant guitars, propelled by a percussive bass line anddrumbeatthat punishes the hi-hat and cymbals.
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These features are mixed with electronic elements, including densely layered psytrance- and techno-influenced arpeggiated synthesizers, pads, synth basslines, effects and programmed drumbeats.
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Dancers respond to specific drumbeats and songs depending on the mask type or character.
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At the end of the song, thedrumbeatincreases and the dance goes on.
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Instead, with its martialdrumbeat, unashamedly vast-scale soft rock dynamics and that similarly monolithic chorus, it is perhaps hip-hops first genuine lighters-in-the-air stadium anthem.
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It proved very hard to hear the negativedrumbeatfrom out there in the public while tackling very hard challenges at work.
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