![]() ![]() In the A Section (see below), Steve lays down a nice linear groove, employing the Floor Tom to cover the downbeat of Beat One. Now that we've established what funk-samba is, let's look at the two different grooves, performed at 130 bpm, that Gadd uses in this particular tune. In the case of " Lenore", Gadd shifts (displaces) the backbeat one sixteenth-note early, before Beat Two the most common of the two funk-samba qualifiers. The key ingredient that I look for in order to qualify a groove as funk-samba is simply a funk groove that displaces the back-beat on Beat Two by one sixteenth-note in either direction. If we understand what funk and samba are individually, we can see how these two can be combined in a way to create a hybrid groove - something I like to call funk-samba. Further evidence to this fusion sound is Gadd's funk-samba and linear drumming approach which we'll look at in this lesson.Īlthough the grooves between the A and B section of this tune are different, there's a common thread, as far as the drums are concerned, that runs through the entire tune. ![]() It was recorded during the same time Corea was working with his jazz-fusion group, Return To Forever, which explains why the album has a fusion edge to it. " Lenore" is a track from Chick Corea's 1976 jazz album, The Leprechaun, which features Steve Gadd on drums. ![]()
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