More Afrobeat: here’s Tony Allen playing with Africa 70. The tune is African Message, from the album No Accommodation For Lagos. Tempo is 118. It’s starts with solo drums playing this groove: Here’s a little […]
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Practice loop: Fela Kuti / Buy Africa
Oh, here’s the practice loop I’m using with that 4:3 Chaffee thing. It’s sampled from Buy Africa, by Fela Kuti, from his 1971 album Fela’s London Scene. Tempo is about 87 bpm. It’s in 4/4, […]
Practice loop: Fela Kuti – This Is Sad
This is a really cool practice loop, sampled from This Is Sad by Fela Kuti, with Tony Allen on drums. You could try to cop the actual groove, or just play anything over it and […]
Groove o’ the day: Tony Allen — No Agreement
Finishing up a long Ed Blackwell transcription, so while U wait, here’s a pretty classic Afrobeat groove from Tony Allen. The tune and album are No Agreement, by Fela Kuti: The variations and fills are […]
DBMITW: Fela Kuti — Zombie
Continuing with light posting for a few days, as I have a lot of other work to do, so here is all of Fela Kuti’s twenty-something-th album, Zombie, with the great Tony Allen on the […]