Definition of "upbeats" [upbeats]

• Plural form of upbeat. (noun)

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• "He said that all the complexity — the subdivisions, the metric modulation, the scurrying intervals — was because of his French connection, a French tendency to musically favor upbeats over downbeats."
• "But I looked over, I saw half of them were doing the upbeats on down bows and half of them were going down up, which gave them all a different rhythmic sense with their bodies."
• "Electo Silva, slender and clearly old though ageless, and who bears a slight resemblance to Yoda in his beneficent smile, gave galvanic upbeats and then often stopped conducting, just standing to one side with that beatific smile on his face, just LISTENING."