So this might seem off topic but bear with me....so I went to James Madison university and the greatest musician in my music department was a jazz drum student, a year ahead of me, named Nate Smith. After seeing several student recitals of him accompany small jazz combos, I got addicted to his unique groove and transmission to the audience. It’s rare for traditional jazz drummer with brushes to project so much “duende” to the audience. Anyway I followed him on line after school, hoping he would get recognition. He finally has as of last year he made the cover modern drummer. He put out an album of solo drum grooves called “Pocket Change” which I enjoyed. So here is an example of his funk style, just high hat snare and kick, it’s really cool:
And here is a track I liked from pocket change:
And so I arranged one of my rumbas to go over top of that one:
devilhand -> RE: Nate Smith (Apr. 19 2020 14:34:33)
Flamenco funk fusion would be interesting. Why don't you try this one? You can add flamenco guitar to it. Each part is 15 seconds long at 1:40-1:55, 2:32-2:47, 3:25-3:40, 4:17-4:32. I don't know if it's possible.
mark indigo -> RE: Nate Smith (Apr. 19 2020 15:58:02)
quote:
here is an example of his funk style, just high hat snare and kick, it’s really cool:
the comments under the first vid are hilarious, i was gonna quote some here, but there are just too many![:D]
nice rumba[:)]
JasonM -> RE: Nate Smith (Apr. 20 2020 23:27:33)
Wow he has Compás. Those comments were pretty funny and kinda warranted!
Jesper -> RE: Nate Smith (Apr. 21 2020 13:49:23)
Wow nice rumba indeed! Almost like the drum track was made for it :p
Ricardo -> RE: Nate Smith (Apr. 23 2020 18:34:43)
I realize he is doing a similar groove here but instead of overdubbed shaker he does shaker with right and everything else with the left!
