So did the Beat Generation, a group of 1940s university students in New York.
They sang as they dug, their tuneless songs keeping time to the beat of a cooking pot drum.
"We didn't want to be involved in the beat of the week, " Mr. Alpert says.
Timoney began his work as a policeman on the beat in New York in the 1960s.
He's also the author of Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America.
Even those watching the classes are tapping their feet and swaying to the beat.
No biggie though, as the meatier features are the beat sequence and music-pad sections.
Scott's music doesn't lay so easily in the beat, as one might expect from a drummer.
And the beat goes on as prosecutors dig through layers of the mortgage fraud.
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She told MSPs she believed police were being taken off the beat to fill civilian posts.
Compton-Rock snaps pictures while dancing to the beat and tapping on a nearby African drum.
All of the commissioners say the rise will help keep more officers on the beat.
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Gore, he said, was such an energetic fiddler that he could not find the beat.
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Initially the crime has to be reported and that's why we need officers on the beat.
But putting more police on the beat will probably not have much impact on crime figures.
Ms Mountstevens has promised a fairer budget settlement "to put more bobbies on the beat".
The e-petition opposing the move was set up by Adam Tansey from heart charity, Keep The Beat.
The world keeps spinning round and round and my heart keeps pounding to the beat of sound.
The creator can then hum a tune and that will be added on top of the beat.
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It's got an intro on it, so I'll come back after the beat drops and all that.
Beat Sync5: automatically syncs all tracks to the beat to the master deck using rekordbox beat grid information.
Their fans will still show, their alum will still provide financial support, and the beat will go on.
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Regardless of the beat's source, music historian Peter Guralnick says that Diddley made it big enough for everyone.
People want not just the bobby on the beat, but a strong, organised uniformed presence back on the streets.
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But there appears to be unease at the prospect of rank and file officers carrying guns on the beat.
The desegregated finale, "You Can't Stop the Beat, " is a blow-the-roof-off ensemble dance-fest that not even I could resist.
With the beat of the drummers and local musicians accompanying Perola's lessons, the energy and sheer fun are infectious.
They were not marching to the drum of the US economy, but to the beat of the Chinese drum.
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Alongside a group of Rastafarian elders they tried to stay with the beat.
When listening to music, users can experience smooth migrating vibration sensations that change with the beat of a song.
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