Bach inscribed even small exercises “to the glory of God”-but society usually views the symphonic concert or grand opera as the highest aspirations of the form. There’s intimacy and devotion in European music as well-J.S. You plug into the ancestors and your reason for living and it’s there. African rhythm seeks ecstasy through communion, not just with God but with everyone in the immediate vicinity. The devotional attitude of African rhythm is one reason it’s so compelling. Cuba, the rest of Latin America, and everything else that Jelly Roll Morton called “the Spanish tinge” is crucial-although some argue that Africa was the source of all those different rhythms, too.) (There are melodic contours that are African, and rhythm technology that is European, but that’s the basic mix. In shorthand form, all our beloved New World music mixes European harmony and African rhythm. They were brought here on the slave ships. Most of the rhythms that power American music come from Africa. This is a devotional attitude, an African attitude. Everyone in the circle should be on the same fresh page, ready to respond not just to all the other musicians in the circle but also to the primordial reason to play music. The player’s mind should be fresh, and they should ask the ancestors for permission to create. Tootie Heath says that in the really old tradition, when a musician sits down to play a concert, it is very important for the musician not to have worked on music yet that day. If possible, please keep this button in mind when reading. Hoping to move reasonably freely, I’ve made this special button. This post is about 6000 words but it still isn’t long enough. My commentary here comes paired with Mark Stryker’s guest post “ Traps, the Drum Wonder.”
#Primodial beat 8bit drummer movie#
While the movie is still hot, I’m going to make a few points that seem really obvious to me but that I haven’t yet read elsewhere. There have been many think pieces about Whiplash, a movie that most general filmgoers have celebrated and a few jazz musicians have hated. See also Mark’s guest post “Traps, the Drum Wonder.”)
Both these photos showed up on Mark Stryker’s Twitter, that’s how I found them. Image lifted from Dave Liebman’s Facebook. Image lifted from Vince Wilburn, Jr.’s Twitter feed)
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