1.   Some spirituals are based on syncopated rhythms.

2.   But Bill Monroe turned it into a brilliant solo instrument with fierce runs, blues bends and sharply syncopated rhythm chords.

3.   But the real warm-up comes when she and her band strap on wooden sandals and start stomping to a rigorous syncopated rhythm.

4.   Intricate syncopated rhythms echo off the ancient walls and minarets of the sprawling Blue Mosque.

5.   The group Underworld offers a techno-pop hybrid of driving syncopated rhythms, live guitar and occasional vocals.

6.   These stylistic noodlings are no doubt meant to mimic the syncopated rhythms of urban life and speech, but instead they expose the weakness of the story and script.

7.   Until a few years ago, a quartet performing a song featuring syncopated rhythms in a competition would be penalized.

8.   The music consists of sweeping melodies combined with syncopated rhythms from plastic tubes, wooden globes and brass gongs half-submerged in water.

9.   The syncopated rhythms, with no melody, had unsettled traditionalists when the pair first used it last year, but they have stuck with it.

10.   The effort will fuse blues and jazz harmonies with the syncopated rhythm of the claves and the distinctive sound of Cuban son -- the precursor to salsa.