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A backing track is an audio recording on audiotape, CD or a digital recording medium or a MIDI recording of synthesized instruments, sometimes of purely rhythmic accompaniment, often of a rhythm section or other accompaniment parts that live musicians play along with or sing along to. Backing tracks enable singers and bands to add parts to ...
Backing vocalist. A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used in a broad range of popular music, traditional music, and world music styles.
A session musician (also known as studio musician or backing musician) is a musician hired to perform in a recording session or a live performance. The term sideman is also used in the case of live performances, such as accompanying a recording artist on a tour.
In sailing, heaving to (to heave to and to be hove to) is a way of slowing a sailing vessel's forward progress, as well as fixing the helm and sail positions so that the vessel does not have to be steered. [1] It is commonly used for a "break"; this may be to wait for the tide before proceeding, or to wait out a strong or contrary wind.
Bareback (sexual act) Sexual penetration without the use of a condom is known as barebacking. Typically, it refers to condomless anal sex between men. Bareback sex is physical sexual activity, especially sexual penetration, without the use of a condom. [1] The topic primarily concerns anal sex between men without the use of a condom, and may be ...
Look up hessian , burlap , or crocus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hessian (UK: / ˈhɛsiən /, US: / ˈhɛʃən / [1]), burlap in North America, [2] or crocus in Jamaica [3] and the wider Caribbean, is a woven fabric made of vegetable fibres, usually the skin of the jute plant [4][5][6] or sisal leaves. [7] It is generally used (in the ...
The backing and bag are often made of coated paper, but may be made of plastic. The adhesive sheet is usually a woven fabric, plastic ( PVC , polyethylene or polyurethane ), or latex strip. It may or may not be waterproof; if it is airtight, the bandage is an occlusive dressing .
Baking is a method of preparing food that uses dry heat, typically in an oven, but can also be done in hot ashes, or on hot stones. The most common baked item is bread, but many other types of foods can be baked. [1] Heat is gradually transferred "from the surface of cakes, cookies, and pieces of bread to their center, typically conducted at ...