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Bill Bruford – Drummers Will Have to Think Quick

Posted on February 24, 2024 by Scott K Fish

SKFNOTE: Forty-two years up the road it is perhaps hard for a large segment of the drumming world to truly understand the initial 1980s impact of the LinnDrum on that world. Suddenly one compact machine could keep perfect metronomic time, … Continue reading →

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Willie Dixon-The Beat Changes the Entire Style

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Scott K Fish

SKF: Researching for my History of Rock Drumming series, Robert Palmer’s book, Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta, was quite helpful. This morning, leafing through a few pages from Deep Blues I had photocopied in … Continue reading →

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Dancing to a Flexible Beat

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Last night I realized a line dance class with 40 amateur adult dancers is a perfect place to study how differently people can dance out of unison with each other – and still be dancing in time. That … Continue reading →

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