Amen Break

[dintymoore]

I found this pretty interesting.

warning: this video is 18 min long and it should be 3 or 4... (you are warned!)

 

[antichef]

Can you play that on the drums? I want to learn how. Then I can play it over and over again, speeding up and slowing down and stuff.

 

[VomitHatSteve]

I've seen that before; it's pretty cool.

I actually sometimes use hits from the Amen break in my randomized drum machine.

 

[TelePaul]

I wish I could play this. It's so simple but I can never work it out. If I could, I'd play every Prodigy song ever!

 

[Rimshot]

Interesting.......... I find this just so standard and have played this and things like it on breaks for many years. It's really very "old school" and I didn't think younger drummers even liked this type of thing anymore.

 

[dintymoore]

Interesting.......... I find this just so standard and have played this and things like it on breaks for many years. It's really very "old school" and I didn't think younger drummers even liked this type of thing anymore.

Exactly! I remember stumbling upon that beat around 1969 on an old set of Crown drums. We called it the "boogaloo" beat. I'm not sure where that came from or if it's even ok to say. I played that stupid beat for about a month straight and wore a big gouge in the side of our Silvertone tv console with my hihat cymbals. I really thought I was King Shit!

To me that beat is so Austin Powers cornball that today I would only play it as a joke. Rowan and Martin "funk". It's the same stupid break Hal Blaine did in "Dizzy" and there was one other 60's hit that had the exact same break I can't recall the name off.

edit: the other 60's hit with the same break came to me - It was "Sweat Pea" by Tommy Roe... pretty wretched stuff.