Take care of your mental wellbeing and forget this political nightmare for awhile, with this cheery practice loop, sampled from Cabbage Alley by The Meters. Excellent for use with this late plethora of funk materials. […]
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Practice loop: The Meters / Doodle-Oop
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 […]
Practice loop: The Meters / The Same Old Thing
A new funk practice loop, sampled from The Same Old Thing, by The Meters. Use this with these two recent pages, or any of my funk stuff. The tempo is about 106 bpm. The 16th notes […]
Grooves o’ the day: all the grooves from Look-ka Py Py
Let’s do a whole record for the groove of the day— and a very famous one at that: Look-Ka Py Py, by The Meters. The drummer is Zigaboo Modeliste, the New Orleans funk legend. We’ve […]
Groove o’ the day: Zigaboo Modeliste — Keep On Marching
Here’s a funky Second Line groove from Zigaboo Modeliste, on the song Keep On Marching, from the Meters album Good Old Funky Music. Play the open hihat strongly— it helps if you have some pretty […]
Groove o’ the day: Idris Muhammad on Grant Green’s Carryin’ On
There’s some nice late-60’s funk drumming by Idris Muhammad (named Leo Morris at the time) on Grant Green’s Carryin’ On album. This is from the James Brown tune I Don’t Want Nobody To Give Me […]
Groove o’ the day: Jungle Man
Another Zigaboo Modeliste groove today, from Jungle Man on The Meters album Rejuvenation: Half-swing the 16th notes– listen to the track to hear the correct interpretation. YouTube audio after the break:
Groove o’ the day: Zigaboo Modeliste – People Say
Today’s groove o’ the day is Zigaboo Modeliste’s part from People Say, by The Meters: The 16ths are half-swung in the New Orleans style (“in between the cracks”, as Stanton Moore calls it). Listen to […]
Transcription: Zigaboo Modeliste – Good Old Funky Music
This is a permanent favorite of mine- Good Old Funky Music by the Meters, with Zigaboo Modeliste on drums. Not a single day goes by without me hearing this internally at some point. There is […]
Transcription: Zigaboo Modeliste – Stay Away
Another older transcription, Zigaboo Modeliste on Stay Away by the Meters. This one has a lot of fills. Get the pdf