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Bill Bruford – Drummers Will Have to Think Quick

Posted on February 24, 2024 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Forty-two years up the road it is, perhaps, hard for some in the drumming world to truly understand the initial impact in the 1980s of the LinnDrum drum machine. 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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