Good Holy Christ, I still have like a firm double of rye left, and more beer than I could possibly drink in a single evening.
It's times like this, of course, when one thinks of great percussion.
Ruben Blades, "Patria".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eMoXmDD2-U
Turn it up.
Think about how many drums that is.
Think about how they're counting.
I'm thinking that's four drummers. It might be just three.
It's . . . Jesus. It's astonishing.
Paul Simon -- yeah yeah just listen to the drums -- "She Moves On".
Here we have, what. Three? Four? Here they're not just the fabric, they participate heavily in the tension of the piece.
Music is about tension and release, and it's so powerful because it presents so many *modes* which can tense and release.
Here, tho, the percussion works very very closely with the lyric. It's not tone or background, it's essential.
@GeePawHill unrelated, but since I saw the record cover, “the obvious child” from that album is one of my favourite songs, ever.
Okay, here, changing things around, there's one drummer, and he's not centered, really. Rather, it's the other players that are insanely rhythmically driven.
Pat Metheny Group, "Tell It All".
You count the main part, right, cuz you're literate and you're not a savage.
Then you get to the end.
