Word: up-tempo
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...times, Dangerously in Love's 15 songs sound like everything Beyonce imagines women go through. There are a few high-energy, up-tempo tracks, including the album-opening standouts Crazy in Love (which has a thumping, hip-hop, wall-of-sound quality--it's already a Top 10 hit) and Naughty Girl (which peaks at Victoria's Secret levels of naughtiness). But the core of the album is slow and moody. Beyonce's voice is wonderfully emotive, yet songs like Me, Myself and I and Yes lack the youthful energy that makes her such an obvious star force...
...consider things like whether the song’s up-tempo,” he says. “So the whole vibe at the show is that everybody gets grooving...
...blues flourishes, and a few changes of pace, but if you block out the supremely crafted (and yes, dolorous) lyrics on tracks such as Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings and Righteously, you could be listening to vintage Rolling Stones. "I had wanted to do a more up-tempo thing," says Williams, "and a few years ago Greg Sowders, who I used to be married to, said, 'Lucinda, you just need to do a rock record. This could be your Exile on Main Street...
...Up-tempo indeed. George Gershwin had agreed to write a symphonic jazz piece for bandleader Paul Whiteman. Gershwin didn't think he had agreed to finish it for a February performance until he read about it in a newspaper a month before the date. So Gershwin got to writing, developing some early musical sketches to a complete score. Almost. By the premiere, he hadn't finished scoring the piano solo. He played it himself, cuing Whiteman when to bring the orchestra back in. An orchestral star was born...
...often in charge of assigning roles, usually five or ten minutes before practice. Based on the scouting report for that week’s opponent, the guys will dribble left-handed or right-handed, play man-to-man or zone, shoot from outside or feed the post, play up-tempo or slow it down...