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In popular music
Popular music

Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally....
 a break is an instrumental
Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments....
 or percussion
Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....
 section or interlude during a song derived from or related to stop-time
Stop-time

In music, stop-time is, according to Samuel A. Floyd Jr., "a musical device in which the forward flow of the music stops, or seems to stop, suspended in a rhythmic unison, while in some cases an improvisation instrumentalist or singer continues solo with the forward flow of the metre and tempo....
 – being a "break" from the main parts
Section (music)

In music, a section is "a complete, but not independent musical idea" . Types of sections include the Introduction or intro, exposition, recapitulation, Verse-chorus form, chorus or refrain, Conclusion , coda or outro, fadeout, bridge or interlude....
 of the song or piece.

A solo break in jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 occurs when the rhythm section stops playing behind a soloist for a brief period, usually two or four bars leading into the soloist's first chorus. The most famous recorded example is Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
's solo break at the beginning of his solo on A Night in Tunisia
A Night in Tunisia

"A Night in Tunisia" is a musical composition written by Dizzy Gillespie in 1942 while he was playing with the Earl Hines Band. It has become a Jazz standard....
.

In DJ parlance, a break is where all elements of a song (e.g., pads, basslines, vocals), except for percussion, disappear for a time.






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In popular music
Popular music

Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally....
 a break is an instrumental
Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments....
 or percussion
Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....
 section or interlude during a song derived from or related to stop-time
Stop-time

In music, stop-time is, according to Samuel A. Floyd Jr., "a musical device in which the forward flow of the music stops, or seems to stop, suspended in a rhythmic unison, while in some cases an improvisation instrumentalist or singer continues solo with the forward flow of the metre and tempo....
 – being a "break" from the main parts
Section (music)

In music, a section is "a complete, but not independent musical idea" . Types of sections include the Introduction or intro, exposition, recapitulation, Verse-chorus form, chorus or refrain, Conclusion , coda or outro, fadeout, bridge or interlude....
 of the song or piece.

A solo break in jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 occurs when the rhythm section stops playing behind a soloist for a brief period, usually two or four bars leading into the soloist's first chorus. The most famous recorded example is Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
's solo break at the beginning of his solo on A Night in Tunisia
A Night in Tunisia

"A Night in Tunisia" is a musical composition written by Dizzy Gillespie in 1942 while he was playing with the Earl Hines Band. It has become a Jazz standard....
.

In DJ parlance, a break is where all elements of a song (e.g., pads, basslines, vocals), except for percussion, disappear for a time. This is distinguished from a breakdown, a section
Section (music)

In music, a section is "a complete, but not independent musical idea" . Types of sections include the Introduction or intro, exposition, recapitulation, Verse-chorus form, chorus or refrain, Conclusion , coda or outro, fadeout, bridge or interlude....
 where the composition is deliberately deconstructed to minimal elements (usually the percussion or rhythm section with the vocal re-introduced over the minimal backing), all other parts having been gradually or suddenly cut out. (Brewster and Broughton 2003, p.79)

The distinction between breaks and breakdowns may be described as, "Breaks are for the drummer; breakdowns are for hands in the air" (ibid).

In hip hop and electronica, a short break is also known as "the drop
The Drop

The Drop is a 1997 album by Brian Eno.The album continues in the same style as much of his work of the period exploring impressionistic, ambient instrumental soundscapes rather than more conventional songwriting....
", and is sometimes accented by cutting off everything, even the percussion.

Break

A break may be described as when the song takes a "breather, drops down to some exciting percussion, and then comes storming back again" and compared to a fake ending. Breaks usually occur two-thirds to three-quarters of the way through a song (Brewster and Broughton 2003, p.79).

According to Peter van der Merwe
Peter van der Merwe

Peter van der Merwe was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a musicologist, author, and librarian at the Natal Society Library. He has written several books on the history of modern classical music....
 (1989, p.283) a break "occurs when the voice stops at the end of a phrase and is answered by a snatch of accompaniment," and originated from the bass run
Bass run

A bass run is a short instrumental break or fill in which the Bass , such as an bass guitar or a double bass and the bassline are given the forefront ....
s of marches of the "Sousa school". In this case it would be a "break" from the vocal part.

According to David Toop
David Toop

David Toop is an English musician and author, and as of 2001 was visiting Research Fellow in the Media School at London College of Communication....
 (1991), "the word break or breaking is a music and dance
Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dance. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement....
 term (as well as a proverb) that goes back a long way. Some tunes, like 'Buck Dancer's Lament' from early in the nineteenth century, featured a two-bar silence in every eight bars for the break--a quick showcase of improvised dance steps. Others used the same device for a solo instrumental break: one of the most fetishized fragments of recorded music is a famous four-bar break taken by Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
 in Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
's tune 'Night in Tunisia'."

However, in Hip Hop, "today the term break refers to any segment of music (usually four measures or less) that could be sampled
Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an musical instrument or a different sound recording of a song....
 and repeated [see break beat below]....A break is any expanse of music that is thought of as a break by a producer." In the words of DJ Jazzy Jay (Leland and Stein 1987: 26, cited in Schloss 2004), "Maybe those records [whose breaks are sampled] were ahead of their time. Maybe they were made specifically for the rap era; these people didn't know what they were making at that time. They thought, 'Oh, we want to make a jazz record'". (Schloss 2004, p.36-37)

Break beat

A break beat is the sampling
Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an musical instrument or a different sound recording of a song....
 of breaks as drum loop
Music loop

In electronic music, a loop is a sampling which is repeated. Loops may be repeated through the use of tape loops, delay effects, cutting between two record players, sampling , a Sampler or with the aid of Computer Based Looping Software....
s (beats), originally from soul tracks, and using them as the rhythmic basis for hip hop
Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
 and rap
Rapping

Rapping is the rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes, wordplay, and poetry. Rapping is a primary ingredient in Hip Hop music, but the phenomenon predates Hip Hop culture by centuries....
 songs. It was invented by DJ Kool Herc
DJ Kool Herc

Clive Campbell , also known as Kool Herc, DJ Kool Herc and Kool DJ Herc, is a Jamaican-born DJ who is credited with originating hip hop music, in the Bronx, New York City....
, a Jamaican, the first to buy two copies of one record so as to be able to mix between the same break or, as Bronx DJ Afrika Bambaataa
Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa is an United States Disc jockey from the South Bronx, who was instrumental in the early development of Hip hop music throughout the 1980s....
 describes, "that certain part of the record that everybody waits for--they just let their inner self go and get wild," extending its length through repetition (Toop, 1991). The dance the boys and girls ended up doing to break beats was called the Break, break dancing. Breaking was abandoned in favor of doing the Freak in 1978 until it was revived and enhanced by Crazy Legs, Frosty Freeze
Frosty Freeze

Wayne "Frosty Freeze" Frost , also known as The Freeze To Please, was an American old school hip hop bboy known as a member of the second generation of the hip hop/breakdancing group, The Rock Steady Crew....
, and the Rock Steady Crew
Rock Steady Crew

Rock Steady Crew is a breakdancing crew and Hip hop culture group that was established in the Bronx, New York City in 1977. The New York Times called the Rock Steady Crew "the foremost breakdancing group in the world today."...
. More recently electronic artists have created "break beats" from other electronic music. Compare with "breakbeat" below.

Although DJ Kool Herc is usually credited with being the first to cut between two copies of a record, it is likely that there were a number of like-minded DJ's developing the technique at the same time. For example, Walter Gibbons was noted in first-hand accounts by his peers for cutting two copies of the same record in his Discoteque gigs of the mid 1970s .

Hip hop break beat compilations include Hardcore Break Beats and Break Beats, and Drum Drops (Toop, 1991).

Breakbeat

Breakbeat
Breakbeat

Breakbeat is a term used to describe a collection of sub-music genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern ....
 as a genre would not appear in any commercial sense until well after the advent of inexpensive digital sampling equipment. The genre itself (outside of a hip-hop usage for this style) can be traced commercially to the group Coldcut
Coldcut

Coldcut are an England dance music duo comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. They are well known for their pioneering technique of using of hip hop style samples in dance music....
 in Great Britain, who started by looping very small sections of analogue tape to form such records as "Beats and Pieces" and "That Greedy Beat". They were inspired by a number of New York hip-hop DJ's, but did not release their recordings in a broader context of Rap music. Coldcut's efforts were equally aligned with house music and dub reggae, as well as being self-standing compositions "sans MC". Aside from the remix of Eric B. and Rakim's "Paid in Full", Coldcut would not align with a rapper until U.S. label Tommy Boy foisted Queen Latifah on the group's "Smoke This One" (originally released as an instrumental composition).

Breakdown

Disco mixer and remixer Tom Moulton
Tom Moulton

Tom Moulton is an United States record producer and originator of the remix, the Break , and the 12-inch single Gramophone record format. He has humbly maintained that the last two innovations were pure accidents....
  invented the "disco break" or breakdown section in the early 1970s. Moulton had been remixing a dance record and found that the performance had "immaculated" (gone up in pitch as live performances are prone to doing), and this fact would be noticed unless he separated two sections of the recording with non-tonal information. He edited in a section of drums, and the aesthetic effect was immediately found to be pleasing to dancers. The placement was also useful for club DJ's, providing a rhythm-only section of the recording over which to begin mixing in the next record to be played. Mr. Moulton has maintained that his innovation was an accident (ibid). The placement followed the patterning of a traditional pop recording: it replaced the bridge
Bridge (music)

In music, especially occidental popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section which also prepares for the return of the original material section....
 typically found in such a record after the second chorus. A clear example is the breakdown in "My Lovin' (Never Gonna' Get It)" by En Vogue: a sampled male voice can be heard introducing this part of the record with the sentence "and now it's time for a breakdown". Longer tracks often have two, three or more breakdowns.

Initially the transition to the breakdown was an abrupt absence of most of the arrangement in a disco record as described above. HiNRG records would typically use a pronounced percussive element, such as a drum fill, to cover the transition, and later genres reach the breakdown section by a gradual reduction of elements. In all genres the stripping away of other instruments and vocals ("breaking-down" the arrangement
Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is either a rewriting of a piece of existing music with additional new material or a fleshing-out of a compositional sketch, such as a lead sheet....
) helps create intense contrast, with breakdowns usually preceding or following heightened musical climaxes. In many dance
Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dance. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement....
 records, the breakdown often consists of a stripping away of the pitched elements (most instruments) - and often the percussion is cut too - but an adding of an unpitched noise
Noise

In common use, the word noise means unwanted sound or noise pollution. In electronics noise can refer to the electronic signal corresponding to acoustic noise or the electronic signal corresponding to the noise commonly seen as 'Noise ' on a degraded television or video image....
 sound effect
Sound effect

Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media....
. This is often treated with a lot of reverb and rises in tone to create an exciting climax. This noise then cuts to a beat of silence before returning to the musical part of the record.

Metal and punk

The breakdown in the metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 and hardcore punk
Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in North America and the UK in the late 1970s. The new sound was generally thicker, heavier and faster than earlier punk rock....
 genres is where a band will usually play in half time, giving the feeling of a slower tempo. It is considered by some to be an important element in many songs of these genres and central to many bands, quite a few of which eschew traditional verse-chorus-verse
Verse-chorus-verse

Verse-chorus-verse may refer to:*Verse-chorus form, a musical form common in popular musicEither of 2 songs by American rock band Nirvana:Written by Kurt Cobain...
 songwriting. When played live, breakdowns are usually responded to by the audience mosh
Mosh

Moshing or slamming refers to the activity in which audience members at live music performances aggressively push or slam into each other....
ing or hardcore dancing
Hardcore dancing

and MoshHardcore dancing grew out of the eastern United States hardcore scene, especially the Boston hardcore, New York hardcore, New Jersey hardcore, Connecticut, and Florida hardcore scenes....
. Vocalists also tend to throw in a single, repeated statement throughout the breakdown, giving those who are not dancing or moshing an opportunity to sing along. Many metalcore
Metalcore

Metalcore is an umbrella term used to describe fusion genres that incorporate elements of the hardcore punk and heavy metal music genres; but this isn't a true metal genre....
 bands rely on having memorable breakdowns rather than memorable choruses.

The drums are usually simple with several cymbals and snare on the third beat. The cymbals are usually a china or fast crash with quarter notes or more common, eighth notes. Also common is the use of crash cymbals with quarter notes, or even half notes, to give the music a very heavy, slow feel. The drummer usually follows the rhythm of the guitar on the kick drum. In metal, the guitars play a set of rhythmically oriented riffs, usually on open strings so as to achieve the lowest and heaviest sound for which the guitars are tuned, so the dancers in the audience can respond effectively. Sometimes, these are contrasted with either dissonant chords, such as minor 2nd intervals, or pinch harmonics. These riffs are often accented by the drummer with double kick bass drums that follow the pattern of the guitars. This kind of breakdown can be traced back to the Los Angeles thrash metal band Dark Angel
Dark Angel

The term dark angel can refer to a fallen angel.Dark Angel may refer to:...
, whose drummer Gene Hoglan
Gene Hoglan

Eugene "Gene" Victor Hoglan II is an United States drummer. He is acclaimed for his creativity in drum arrangements, including usage of odd devices for percussion effects and his trademark lengthy double-kick drum rhythms ....
 first played this kind of rhythmic double bass drums-guitar oriented breakdown on the title track of Dark Angel's second album, Darkness Descends
Darkness Descends

Darkness Descends is the second studio album by the American thrash metal band Dark Angel . The album is the first to feature drummer Gene Hoglan....
. Gene Hoglan has used this technique, which he calls 'kick triplets', in various bands in which he played since then, and it had become commonly used in Thrash Metal and especially Death Metal, although not always in the same way it is used in Metalcore. However, this standard formula for breakdowns is not always followed. Many current bands now tend to distort the line between breakdowns and other parts of songs.

In punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
, breakdowns tend to be more upbeat, using the floor toms and snares to create a faster, 'rolling' rhythm. This provides audience members with an opportunity to skank
Skank (dance)

Skanking is a form of dancing practiced in the reggae, ska, ska punk, ska-core, hardcore punk, and Grime music scenes.The dance style originated in the 1950s or 1960s at Jamaican Dance Hall , where ska music was played....
, mosh
Mosh

Moshing or slamming refers to the activity in which audience members at live music performances aggressively push or slam into each other....
, or circle pit
Circle pit

A circle pit is a term for aggressive, violent dancing performed by people running in a circle usually at Rock music gigs. It is a type of strenuous dancing associated with certain subgenres of music such as ska, punk rock, thrash metal, Heavy metal music, and even some harder rock music and electronic music, usually started by members of the...
.

The Bluegrass Breakdown

In bluegrass music
Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and is a sub-genre of country music. It has its own roots in Folk music of Ireland, Music of Scotland, Music of Wales and Folk Music of England traditional music....
, a break is a short instrumental solo played between sections of a song and is conventionally a variation on the song's melody. A breakdown is an instrumental form that features a series of breaks, each played by a different instrument. Examples of the form are "Bluegrass Breakdown" by Bill Monroe as well as "Earl's Breakdown" and "Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Foggy Mountain Breakdown

"Foggy Mountain Breakdown" is a famous bluegrass music instrumental by the seminal bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs. It is used as background music in the 1967 in film motion picture Bonnie and Clyde , especially in the car chase scenes, and has been used in a similar manner in many other pictures and television programs, particularl...
", both of which were written by Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs

Earl Eugene Scruggs is a musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a 3-finger style on the 5-string banjo that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music....
.

Notable breaks/breakdowns

  • "Fencewalk" by Mandrill
    Mandrill

    The Mandrill is a primate of the Old World monkey family, closely related to the baboons and even more closely to the Drill . Both the Mandrill and the Drill were once classified as baboons in genus Baboon, but recent research has determined that they should be separated into their own genus, Mandrillus....
    , used by DJ Kool Herc
    DJ Kool Herc

    Clive Campbell , also known as Kool Herc, DJ Kool Herc and Kool DJ Herc, is a Jamaican-born DJ who is credited with originating hip hop music, in the Bronx, New York City....
     
  • The Amen Break
    Amen break

    The "Amen break" was a drum solo performed by Gregory Cylvester Coleman.The "Amen Break", "Amen", or imitations thereof, are frequently used as sampling drum Music loop in hip hop music, jungle , breakcore and drum and bass music....
     from "Amen, Brother" (1969) by The Winstons
    The Winstons

    The Winstons is a 1960s funk and soul music outfit, based in Washington, D.C., who are most notable for sound recording and reproduction a song called "Amen, Brother" ....
  • "Synthetic Substitution" by Melvin Bliss, used by Ultramagnetic MC's
  • "Funky Drummer
    Funky drummer

    "Funky Drummer" is a funk song recorded by James Brown and his band. The recording's drum solo, performed by drummer Clyde Stubblefield, is one of the most frequently sampling break in hip hop music and popular music; indeed, it lays a strong claim to being the most sampled recording ever....
    " by James Brown
    James Brown

    James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
     
  • The Meters
    The Meters

    The Meters were an United States funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their music from the late 1960s until 1977....
     
  • Creative Source
  • The JBs
  • The Blackbyrds
    The Blackbyrds

    The Blackbyrds is a former rhythm and blues and jazz-funk fusion group, formed in Washington, D.C. in 1973.The group was led by trumpeter Donald Byrd and featured some of his Howard University students: Kevin Toney , Keith Killgo , Joe Hall , Allan Barnes , and Barney Perry ....
     
  • Last Poets
  • "Scratchin'" by Magic Disco Machine
  • "Scorpio" by Dennis Coffey
    Dennis Coffey

    Dennis Coffey is an United States guitarist. He was a recording studio musician for many soul music and Rhythm and blues sound recording and reproduction....
     
  • "Careless Whisper" by George Michael
    George Michael

    Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou , best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning, England singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! as well as a soul music-influenced, solo Pop music musician....
     
  • "Super Sperm" by Captain Sky
    Captain Sky

    Daryl L. Cameron , better known as Captain Sky, is an American musician and singer. Captain Sky?s funk-based musical style, futuristic costumes, and psychedelic imagery are similar to those of George Clinton , Bootsy Collins, and other Parliament/Funkadelic projects....
     
  • "Mardi Gras" by Bob James
    Bob James (musician)

    Bob James is a smooth jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist, arranger and Record producer....
    , cover of Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
    's "Take Me to The Mardi Gras". Used by The Crash Crew on "Breaking Bells (Take Me To the Mardi Gras".
  • "Soul Makossa" by Manu Dibango
    Manu Dibango

    Manu Dibango is a Cameroonian saxophonist and vibraphone player. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk and traditional Cameroonian music....
     
  • "Easy Dancin'" by Wagadu-Gu
  • "In The Bottle" by Gil Scott-Heron
    Gil Scott-Heron

    Gil Scott-Heron is an United States poet, musician, and author known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word soul performer and his collaborative work with musician Brian Jackson ....
     
  • "Spider in the Shower" by Gil Scott-Heron
  • "Apache" by the Incredible Bongo Band
    Incredible Bongo Band

    The Incredible Bongo Band, also known as Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, was a project started in 1972 by Michael Viner, a record artist manager and executive at MGM Records....
    . Used by DJ Kool Herc
    DJ Kool Herc

    Clive Campbell , also known as Kool Herc, DJ Kool Herc and Kool DJ Herc, is a Jamaican-born DJ who is credited with originating hip hop music, in the Bronx, New York City....
    , The Sugarhill Gang
    The Sugarhill Gang

    The Sugarhill Gang is an United States Hip Hop group, known mostly for their biggest hit, "Rapper's Delight", the first hip hop music single recorded to become a Top 40 hit....
     in "Apache", West Street Mob in "Break Dancin' - Electric Boogie".
  • Mickey Mouse Club Theme
  • "C Is For Cookie"
  • TeeVee Toons' Television's Greatest Hits
    Television's Greatest Hits

    Television's Greatest Hits is a series of albums containing recordings of TV theme songs through the years. This series was first introduced in 1985 as the centerpiece of the then-new TVT Records....
     Vols. 1-3
  • O Canada
  • "68" by Haste The Day
    Haste the Day

    Haste the Day is a Christian metalcore band that was signed with Solid State Records from Indianapolis, Indiana, formed in 2001. Their band is named after a lyric in the hymn "It Is Well with My Soul"....
     from the album, "Dreamer".
  • "Pray For Plagues" By Bring Me The Horizon from the album, "Count Your Blessings"
    Count Your Blessings (album)

    Count Your Blessings is a 1994 Christmas album, taking its title from the song of the same name , presenting a concert recorded by Jane Siberry, Holly Cole, Rebecca Jenkins, Mary Margaret O'Hara and Victoria Williams....
  • "No Pity for a Coward" by Suicide Silence
    Suicide Silence

    Suicide Silence is a four-piece deathcore band from Riverside, California, California....
     from the album, "The Cleansing".
  • "My Fears Have Become Phobias" by As Blood Runs Black
    As Blood Runs Black

    As Blood Runs Black is an United States deathcore band from Los Angeles, California....
  • "A Shot In The Dark" by A Day To Remember
    A Day to Remember

    A Day to Remember is a five-piece post-hardcore band from Ocala, Florida, signed to Victory Records. They are often said to have influences in many genres, including pop punk, metalcore, and even death metal....
  • "Beast Of The Black Forest" by Postmortem Promises
  • "Crawl Back" by Veil of Maya
  • "Bow Down" by Born of Osiris
  • "Samael The Destroyer" by Oceano
  • "This Lying World" By Unearth
    Unearth

    Unearth is an American metalcore band from Winthrop, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, formed in 1998. They are also known for playing seven-stringed guitars, while the bass player plays a five-stringed bass....
     from the album, "The Oncoming Storm".
  • "Stilleto" By Symphony In Peril
    Symphony in Peril

    Symphony in Peril was a Christian music metalcore band from Columbus, Ohio....
     from the album, "The Whore's Trophy".


  • "These Cities, Our Graves" By Antagonist A.D from the album, "These Cities, Our Graves"
  • "Knives and Wolves" By The Red Shore
    The Red Shore

    The Red Shore is an Australia deathcore band from Geelong, Victoria, formed in 2005. The band currently consists of vocalist Jamie Hope, guitarists Jason Leombruni and Roman Koester, drummer Jake Green, and bassist Jon Green....
  • "Smoke 'Em If Ya Got 'Em" By Parkway Drive from the EP "Don't Close Your Eyes"
  • "Laid to Rest" By Lamb of God
    Lamb of God

    Lamb of God is one of the titles given to Jesus in the New Testament and consequently in the Christian tradition. It refers to Jesus' role as a sacrificial lamb atoning for the sins of man in Christian theology, harkening back to ancient Temple in Jerusalem sacrifices in which a domestic sheep was slain during the passover , the blood was s...
     from the album, "Ashes of the Wake"
  • "Back Burner" By August Burns Red from the album, "Messengers"
  • "March Of The Pigs" By Nine Inch Nails
    Nine Inch Nails

    Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock music group, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. As its main Producer , singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction....
     from the album, "The Downward Spiral"
  • "Reptar, King of the Ozone" By The Devil Wears Prada
    The Devil Wears Prada

    The Devil Wears Prada is a best selling novel by Lauren Weisberger about a young woman who, freshly graduated from college, is hired as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editing, a job that becomes hellish as she struggles to keep up with her boss's capricious and demeaning requests....
     from the album, "Plagues"
  • "When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong" By Emmure
    Emmure

    Emmure is a deathcore band from New Fairfield, Connecticut, Connecticut that formed in 2003. The founding members, Frank and Joe, met on the internet and began rehearsals together....
     from the album, "Goodbye to the Gallows"
  • "The Glass Prison" By Dream Theater
    Dream Theater

    Dream Theater is an United States progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Myung, John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, before they dropped out to support the band....
     from the album, "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence"
  • "Carbombs and Conversations" by Embrace The End
    Embrace the End

    Embrace the End are a five-piece metalcore band from Sacramento, California. Originally consisting of only four members, the band has gone through several line-up changes, at one point having as many as six members, including two vocalists....
     from the album "Counting Hallways to the Left"
  • "Bloodshed" By The Eyes Of A Traitor from their EP "Bloodshed"
  • "Champ" By The Mohawks
  • "Cuts Like A Knife" By Bryan Adams
    Bryan Adams

    Bryan Adams, Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia is a Canada Rock music singer-songwriter and photographer. Rolling Stone magazine describes Adams as having an ?unerring gift for radio-friendly pop hooks" and in 1992, Adams won the Grammy Awards of 1992, for "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" fo...


See also

  • Drum beat
  • Ultimate Breaks & Beats
    Ultimate Breaks and Beats

    Ultimate Breaks and Beats, commonly abbreviated as UBB, is the name of a 25-volume compilation of mostly full-length songs that were known for their break ....
  • Break dancing
  • Get down
    Get Down

    "Get Down" is the third and final single released from Nas' 2002 album God's Son. It features descriptive storytelling by Nas and funk-based production by Nas and Salaam Remi....


Sources

  • Brewster, Bill and Broughton, Frank (2003). How to DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records. New York: Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3995-7.
  • Schloss, Joseph G. (2004). Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip Hop. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0-8195-6696-9.
  • Toop, David
    David Toop

    David Toop is an English musician and author, and as of 2001 was visiting Research Fellow in the Media School at London College of Communication....
     (1991). Rap Attack 2: African Rap To Global Hip Hop, p.113-115. New York: Serpent's Tail. ISBN 1-85242-243-2.
  • van der Merwe, Peter (1989). Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-316121-4.


External links


  • by Budda Bob from The Bomb Hip-Hop Magazine #41 (June/July 1995)