Very basic drum beats
I have over 100 children that I see and teach every day. This year I am lucky to be teaching music to 3-6 year olds. Even this basic drumming is a form of music as children explore sounds and music. I remember my own children banging on pots and pans and loving every minute of it. This bucket drumming for kids activity is basically an extension of this simple music. Hear it on: Wu Tang Clan - Bring Da Ruckus 8.What child doesn’t love drumming? Even at a young age children will often bang and make their own kind of music around the house. But Wu Tang Clan are arguably the biggest fans, sampling the groove on Bring Da Ruckus and Clan In Da Front, as well as solo tracks from Method Man and Ghostface Killah. Synthetic Substitution found its way onto cuts from Public Enemy (Miuzi Weighs A Ton), The Pharcyde (Ya Mama) and Ultramagnetic MCs (Ego Trippin), while walking groove encyclopedia Questlove paid tribute to the beat in part on The Roots’ Mellow My Man. The hi-hats tick away they keep the time with eighth-notes and feature Purdie’s signature ‘air’, lifting on the third off-beat of the bar, while the snare has that classic ‘70s breakbeat dirt. While most people are familiar with The Purdie Shuffle, Synthetic Substitution is a kick-heavy workout of bouncing 16-notes. The drummer on Synthetic Substitution is none other than Bernard Purdie, the rightfully self-named Hitmaker whose discography runs to thousands of records, with a list of legends such as Nina Simone, Steely Dan, BB King, Miles Davis, and many, many more on his CV. Melvin Bliss - Synthetic SubstitutionĪs with many formerly rare grooves, Synthetic Substitution started life as a B-side, in this case for the Melvin Bliss song Reward, with both tunes written by Herb Rooney. Even backwards-attired Kriss Kross used it on Jump. It’s appeared on tracks from the likes of De La Soul, Nas, The Cool Kids and Joey Bada$$. Is President, or Notorious B.I.G using it twice on debut album, Ready To Die, keeping the break intact during the chorus for the title track, and chopping it for Unbelievable. That didn’t stop Marley Marl rearranging it for Eric B. It’s loose, with the hi-hats following the syncopation of the bass drum, and despite it being sampled hundreds of times, Roy C struggled with the unknown drummer’s takes “I worked hard with the drummer, because he wasn’t as good a drummer as I would have liked to have,” he told Wax Poetics. Songwriter/producer Roy Charles Hammond (Roy C) enlisted a group of students from Jamaica High School, Queens, to record 1973’s Impeach The President, complete with the boom-bap staples of skipping bass drums, open hi-hats and snappy snare drums. The opening bar of Impeach The President remains one of the most widely recycled beats in hip-hop history, yet very little is actually known about the musicians who played on the track. What is undeniable, though, is that The Incredible Bongo Band’s version of Apache is a hip-hop staple, with some proclaiming it as the ‘national anthem’ of the genre. It is unclear as to whether Hendriks, Gordon, or a comp of the two parts was used for the final mix. LA session musician Kat Hendrikse recorded his parts in Vancouver, while Jim Gordon tracked his version in LA. Viner actually held two separate sessions to track parts for Apache. While King Errisson provided the distinctive percussion part, as noted in documentary Sample This, confusion still surrounds exactly who played drums on the original.
The likes of Nas, Kanye West and Grandmaster Flash used it, and The Sugarhill Gang produced their own cover. The combined drum/bongo break from The Incredible Bongo Band’s version of Apache has played a huge part in the sound of hip-hop and beyond.
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Bert Weedon and The Shadows both recorded versions of Jerry Lorden’s composition, but it wasn’t until 1973 that the tune found its groove when industry executive Michael Viner assembled a crack team of studio musicians to record their take on the tune.
Long before it became a hip-hop staple, Apache already lived twice as a twangy surf guitar instrumental.