Color Names

Offbeat

Grey as a rest, a skipped beat in an otherwise steady rhythm.

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Offbeat is a pale grey.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and almost grey.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Offbeat

Syncopation

In music, syncopation is a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat. More simply, syncopation is "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm": a "placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur". It is the correlation of at least two sets of time intervals.

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Beat (music)

In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse, of the mensural level. The beat is often defined as the rhythm listeners would tap their toes to when listening to a piece of music, or the numbers a musician counts while performing, though in practice this may be technically incorrect. In popular use, beat can refer to a variety of related concepts, including pulse, tempo, meter, specific rhythms, and groove.

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OffBeat (music magazine)

OffBeat is a New Orleans, Louisiana monthly local music magazine founded by Jan V. Ramsey in 1987. The magazine, published by OffBeat, Inc., focuses on the popular music of New Orleans and Louisiana, which is generally R&B, blues, jazz, rock, hip-hop, funk, and many other traditional styles of music popular in Louisiana. OffBeat was the first magazine in New Orleans to resume publishing after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, despite losing all its staff and its printer.

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offbeat

Noun

  1. The beats not normally accented in a measure.
  2. An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.

Adjective

  1. Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.
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