backbeat

[ bak-beet ]
/ ˈbækˌbit /

noun Popular Music.

a secondary or supplementary beat, as by a jazz drummer.

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backbeat
/ (ˈbækˌbiːt) /

noun

music the second and fourth beats of a bar written in even time or, in more complex time signatures, the last beat of the bar Compare downbeat (def. 1), upbeat (def. 1)