Funky Drummer

And then once I start getting into something, I tend to kind of get a little obsessive about it and start going way down the rabbit hole.

So I started, you know, transcribing Clyde and I was like, oh, well, I've got to transcribe Funky Drummer, but then I've got to transcribe the end of Funky Drummer too, right? And then I didn't just transcribe two bars, I transcribed the whole break.

So then, okay, great.

Well, another classic break of Clyde's is Soul Pride.

Well, today we're gonna find out, because the drummer ain't had it in a long time.

We're talking one song, and that song is Funky Drummer by the godfather of soul, the hardest working man in show biz.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. James Brown.

One, two, three, four, hit it.

[Funky Drummer playing] [laughs] [Funky Drummer playing] [record scratching] [upbeat music]

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And it was Cool DJ Herc.

who's actually from the Caribbean, who took this short bit from James Brown's Funky Drummer and just ended up looping it and looping it and looping it to create what we know of as hip-hop breakbeats.

And how he stumbled upon this was that there's a moment in the Funky Drummer where all the instruments drop out except for the drummer.

And the drummer just plays this really kind of, it's not a wildly complex groove, but it's a really hard hitting, funky groove.

And DJ Kool Herc noticed that when all the other instruments dropped out and just the drums were playing in this moment of the song, that that's when the break dancers really did the most exciting stuff.

So he thought, well, let me just loop this again and again.

And you could loop it again and again with the use of two turntables, right? Moving back and forth between the same record, looping and looping and looping and looping.

So I want to play that portion of the funky drummer right now.

That's tears of a clown at number 262 one more here and number 261 It's toots and the Maytals with funky Kingston.

I was asking you guys what's your favorite funky song a song with funky in the title and Great suggestions here at Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry, Funky Drummer by James Brown, Funky Boss by the Beastie Boys, Funky Cold Medina by Tone Loke, The Temptations, Funky Music, Show Nuff Turns Me On, and Funky Gibbon by The Goodies.

We have to give it up for our man Toots and the Maytals.

Funky Kingston is a ride.

It's Soulful Sunday, Vocal Booth Radio

The name of this tune is The Funky Drummer.

Ha.

The Funky Drummer.

The Funky Drummer.

The Funky Drummer.

The Funky Drummer.

The Funky Drummer.

Ain't it funky? Ain't it funky? One, two, three, four.

The name of this tune is The Funky Drummer The Funky Drummer The Funky Drummer Bye.

One two three Goin' down to the trip and let it all hang out Where soulful people knows what it's about Goin' down to the trip and let it all hang out Where soulful people knows what it's about Where people give a sign and shake their hands And dance until the music stays on band They're dancing on the good foot.

I got to get on the good foot.

Clyde Stubblefield.

Yeah, he's pretty good, isn't he? Just that, I don't know, being able to make a beat like the funky drummer.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you listen to that and you just think, how could a human have made that? Yeah, I listened to playback yesterday.