Captain Bacardi

OK, getting a little better at Muse, so here is an attempt at catching up on lost time. I know I intended to post some Captain Beefheart but instead... here have some Captain Bacardi instead.

So many Brazilian rhythm transcriptions (and lets face it, bands playing tired Brazilan grooves) get you ready to snore on another cliche; but Captain Bacardi is a very hip beat!

From Jobim's summer of love record- WAVE with Mr. Claudio Slon-drums. 

Transcription starts at beginning.

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Another Sophomoric Miniature

This piece reflects some of the things that got me obsessed on impractical things- Art, Music and Philosophy. So here is my unabashed homage to all things naive. Passion meets boredom.

Since this is a drum blog a quick note on the beat. It started out in 9/4 to keep with the Stephen Foster/Beautiful Dreamer and Claude Debussy/Clair de Lune ennui but morphed into even time (10/4).

Children's Crusade

Blast from the Past: Before there was YouTube, there was the very 1980's BBC/PBS show Rock School to help all us nubes!

Beware: Big hair, Spandex, Simmons drums, pixel graphics & classic synths, abound.

Omar Hakim explains how he came up with the groove to Sting's "Children's Crusade". 

The transcription starts at 0:34 sec.

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*Sorry, I will be posting more frequent, and hopefully more accurate transcriptions if I can learn how to use Muse. Right now I am still struggling with it! I have been avoiding posting scans of hand written pages but that would be the path of least frustration. Note, there is no last hi-hat eighth note in the last measure.