Oh, and you might want a slightly slower loop to hang with the sixtuplets on the new page of funk stuff, so here’s some more Meters. The tempo is about 90 BPM, and the NOLA-style swing feel si happening, but it’ll work well with those pages. The drummer, our beloved and revered Zigaboo Modeliste, is playing a combination of street beat and funk groove, so this will also be great for working on those recent street beat methods I posted.
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