breakbeat

/ˈbreɪkbiːt/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈbreɪkbiːt/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈbrāk-ˌbēt/ (ame, mw)

breakbeat — noun

  • breakbeatsingular
  • breakbeatsplural

1. dance music built by using short drum sections from older funk or soul records a

1.名詞B2
釋義

dance music built by using short drum sections from older funk or soul records and shaping them into a driving electronic track

例句

After midnight, the club switched from house to breakbeat for the final hour.

pattern: switch from house to breakbeat

Sana produces breakbeat on her laptop after classes at art school.

collocation: produce breakbeat

同義詞
  • electronic dance music

    a much broader category that includes many club styles besides breakbeat

  • big beat

    a nearby style with heavy break-based rhythms, but usually louder and more rock-influenced

文法句型

play breakbeat

produce breakbeat

switch from X to breakbeat

用法筆記

Usually treated as a mass noun when you mean the genre: people say 'play breakbeat' or 'like breakbeat'. For one piece of music, speakers more often say 'a breakbeat track' than simply 'a breakbeat'. Distinguish from sense 2, which names the repeated drum pattern inside a song.

常見錯誤

❌The DJ played a breakbeat for an hour.
✅The DJ played breakbeat for an hour.' or 'The DJ played a breakbeat track for an hour.
💡the genre is usually treated as a mass noun.
❌I heard many breakbeat musics online.
✅I heard a lot of breakbeat online.
💡'breakbeat' is not normally pluralized when talking about the style in general.

2. a short repeated drum pattern, often taken from another recording, that producer

2.名詞C1
釋義

a short repeated drum pattern, often taken from another recording, that producers use as the rhythmic base of a dance or hip-hop track

例句

Eitan looped a dusty breakbeat under the bass line for the chorus.

pattern: loop a breakbeat

The producer cut one clean breakbeat from an old funk record.

pattern: cut a breakbeat from a record

同義詞
  • drum loop

    broader term for any repeated percussion pattern, whether sampled or newly programmed

  • drum break

    usually the original section taken from a song, while a breakbeat may be the loop built from it

  • groove

    focuses more on the musical feel than on the specific repeated pattern itself

文法句型

loop a breakbeat

build a track around a breakbeat

cut a breakbeat from X

用法筆記

Common in DJ and producer talk. This sense usually names one sampled or programmed rhythm pattern, not the whole genre. Distinguish from sense 1, which is the full style of music built around these patterns.

常見錯誤

❌She added breakbeat under the vocal.
✅She added a breakbeat under the vocal.
💡this sense names one drum pattern, so it usually needs an article or another determiner.
❌The song has many breakbeat.
✅The song has many breakbeats.
💡use the plural when talking about several separate drum patterns.