One of first long drum solos in an album. Every drummer knew this song and we all measured ourselves by whether we could play. Echoing the treatment by Ringo Starr in The End it is beautiful in its simplicity. Indeed, it may be the most recognized drum solo in the world, over 50 years after it was released.
For the full effect listen to it with headphones, it will still blow you away. The phasing the engineers did on that solo was pretty cool too, possibly the first use of electronic effects on drums. Iron Butterfly drummer Ron Bushy created a musical solo, that pretty much any drummer could play, it was easily memorized.
It is an iconic solo for all the right reasons. Bushy was not trying to prove to people what a chop master he was, but rather to create a section of the song that was a VITAL part of the song, not just drum chops stuck in the middle.
The way he ended his solo and came out into that rim click backbeat was the perfect segue to James Ingalls church inspired organ composition. Finally, great drum solos are not simply about technical mastery of the skins. It is more about feeling and emotion.
As much as I love the live performances for their over-the-top technical skills, playing the drums is really about emotion. This performance exudes emotion. On the transaction side of the controls, the company enacted new discount transparency and pass-through requirements, created an expanded transaction monitoring initiative at the regional level, and developed data analytics to help identify high-risk transactions.
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Learn more and compare subscriptions content expands above. The Beatles were often very deliberate and considerate about the music that they made. McCartney and Lennon had their studio assistants count out the bars and set an alarm clock to signal that it was time to transition from John to Paul. And Schaefer says that before this song, there was no Sugarhill Gang, at least not as we know it today. Luckily for Robinson, her son found a man in a local pizza parlor and convinced him to come into the studio.
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