Larry
"Uncle Larry"
My son claims he can sell recorded sample packs of my Guru drums, both individual drums and beats on full sets. So we are starting a project concerning that.
Apparently there is a thing called drunk beats, which he says would sell really well.
An example of a drunk beat would be 8ths on the hi hat, snare on 2 and 4, kick on 1 and 3.
Except you keep the hats on the click, flam the bass drum ahead of the click, and flam the snare drum behind the click.
And all the other combinations keeping the hi hat straight.
My son was trying to get me to rush the hi hat with the bass drum flam. That was tough, I wasn't ready for that yet.
My point is after trying my whole life to NOT play like that...playing "badly" is hard! I have to be ultra precise especially when flamming the bass drum. I had a hard time, my flam gap was too big. Closing that gap...I still don't have it or anything. It's hard for me to flam ahead with the bass drum and get it just right so it makes the desired effect. It's like anti groove, but in time. Drunk groove. I personally don't have any use for it, but it's a great mental control exercise. And hey if I can sell some drunk beats? Heck yeah I'd like to get back some of the dough I spent on the Gurus.
Anyone heard of drunk beats ? (They could go under another name)
Apparently there is a thing called drunk beats, which he says would sell really well.
An example of a drunk beat would be 8ths on the hi hat, snare on 2 and 4, kick on 1 and 3.
Except you keep the hats on the click, flam the bass drum ahead of the click, and flam the snare drum behind the click.
And all the other combinations keeping the hi hat straight.
My son was trying to get me to rush the hi hat with the bass drum flam. That was tough, I wasn't ready for that yet.
My point is after trying my whole life to NOT play like that...playing "badly" is hard! I have to be ultra precise especially when flamming the bass drum. I had a hard time, my flam gap was too big. Closing that gap...I still don't have it or anything. It's hard for me to flam ahead with the bass drum and get it just right so it makes the desired effect. It's like anti groove, but in time. Drunk groove. I personally don't have any use for it, but it's a great mental control exercise. And hey if I can sell some drunk beats? Heck yeah I'd like to get back some of the dough I spent on the Gurus.
Anyone heard of drunk beats ? (They could go under another name)
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