Manufacturer: Big Fish Audio
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Description : Big Fish Audio LA Riot The Funky Drummers CD1-3 is the latest great collection of funk, big beat, hip hop, breakbeat and soul tracks for serious producers! This disc is also filled with two drum tracks from an extraordinary set of single instruments. We find talented drummers who create creative drum tracks for you. On three discs you can find 207 tracks of drum patterns for music, for choir, for dance music, etc. All these short excerpts of tracks are as close as possible to natural sounding and they can be easily cut and glued together in the way you need up to seconds. All tracks are presented as loops, with precise fixed tempos. With these discs you can also create classical music in your improvisation. Use this in conjunction with a sampler, digital recorder, Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, Roland or Korg hardware recorders.
Content :
The ultimate kickin’ collection of license free funk, big beat, hip hop, breakbeat and soul tracks for the serious producer! There’s even some full-on two drummer tracks doing things impossible on a single kit. We procured the talents of four of Hollywood’s finest skin thrashers, the dopest engineer and the phattest studio to lay down over 200 full length drum tracks for your creative pleasure. You get 3 CD’s with 207 tracks of sick drumming in song format with intro, verse, chorus, breakdown and chorus out. This short form keeps a natural feel to all tracks and makes it a breeze to cut and paste an entire song structure to your dope demand in seconds.
All of the tracks are in solid time with exact tempos given. You must possess and covet this classic work of artistic inspiration. Use it with a sampler, digital recorder, Pro Tools, Cubase, Logic, Roland or Korg hardware recorders, or just jam and flow along with the CD!.
The one name that comes to mind when I see/hear “The Funky Drummer” is, of course, James Brown. Something really interesting I heard was that James Brown’s funk style is unique because each measure begins with a heavy accent on the “1” while beats 2, 3, and 4 are not accented; other funk styles the downbeat is on “2” and “4”.
Couple other James Brown trivia……. his brother Royal was in town and sat in with my band, singing “Stormy Monday” and “I’ll Go Crazy”. Very cool cat…… I did not want that gig to end 🙂
In live footage, if you see him dancing along the horn line and holding fingers out, he’s telling the player how much his pay is docked because his pants might be too long or short, or shoes not shined, etc.
If someone was backstage and addressed him as “James” they were escorted out. It was “Mr. Brown” and only that.
Mr. Brown and his wife loved PCP. They’d been busted a few times for possession. Public service announcement: if you’re in a part of the world where you haven’t encountered PCP, then keep it that way. Hideous drug. Anyway, one time Mrs. Brown was pulled over and PCP found in vehicle. She protested the arrest on the grounds she had diplomatic immunity; her husband, she told them, was the “ambassador of soul music”.