great moments in hi hats

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apologies if this has been done before, but i don't see it soooo...

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Cat Stevens "Wild World"

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

The Police, "One World (not Three)"

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Good fucking question - nothing beats a skipping hi-hat man. My pick is the entirity of 'Marquee Moon' by Television. Ficca's work across the whole album is incredible, pulling out trick after trick (I've always wondered why he faded into the shade so badly on 'Adventure'), and his hi-hat work in particular is a delight. The hat on 'See No Evil' is just stupid.

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Elvis Costello "Imagination (Is A Powerful Deceiver)"

when the drummer suddenly goes into 16th notes at the beginning of the 2nd verse like he's just making it up as he goes along (which he probably was) i just DIE, so perfect

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Riddle of the Eighties - fIREHOSE

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

astrud gilberto - "light my fire"
the way he stops and waits and then starts again when you don't expect him to play... still amazing after many many listens.

― joao vich, Monday, 2 December 2002 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

oh fucking word up on Marquee Moon, fuck guitar heroism, that's a total drum heroics record.

oh shit, and too many Hurley moments to mention.

also, "Birdland".

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 2 December 2002 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

theme from 'shaft' !

― zebedee, Monday, 2 December 2002 16:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Stewart Copeland on Peter Gabriel's "Red Rain". Andy Anderson (The Cure) on "Birdmad Girl" and live versions "100 Years" on The Top tour - he played with rippled hi's and tree trunks, it was the loudest, fullest sound you can get. Pure Chic.

― Chris Ott, Monday, 2 December 2002 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

They're programmed, but the hi hats in Paperclip People's "The Climax" drive the whole track. Great dynamic shifts in this track, too, normally hi hats just ride along to subdivide the rhythm.

― Brian Miller, Monday, 2 December 2002 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

programmed counts!

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

the rapture!

― tony bleach (blackshoeswhitesocks), Monday, 2 December 2002 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Great question. Stephen Morris' double-time hi-hat is one of my favorite sounds in the world. And then, of course, can't forget Howard Grimes on Al Green's records.

― Aaron W, Monday, 2 December 2002 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

AFX, Track 8, Analogue Bubblebath III. My favorite electronic hi-hat sound.

― Chris Ott, Monday, 2 December 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Billy Martin of Medeski Martin and Wood owns the tasty hi-hit lick these days. Organic, great light touch and bounce, but also very powerful and sometimes dizzying with the polyrhythmic flares...and this is just what he's doin' on the HI HAT. Anybody who's heard their speed-up/slow-down super-jam "Bubblehouse" might be able to back me up on this one.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 December 2002 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Fucking minutemen drummer (NEVER can remember his name) on "theater is the life of you" in particular - the syncopated kickdrum/hi-hat hits get me every time - but really all of double nickels

by the way, i guess i'll introduce myself. my name is jake, i go to school in portland oregon, and i lurked here for a while until i gradually started coming out of the woodwork. i like rock-critic rock, chart hip-hop, and jazz (roughly)

― brains (cerybut), Monday, 2 December 2002 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Jacbo, his name is George Hurley, and I agree with you, though I go for the hi-hat/bass duel of "Games".

see yourself
i know
you know
it's your ego

― Chris Ott, Monday, 2 December 2002 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Commit the name George Hurley to memory, as he is the greatest drummer since Keith Moon.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 2 December 2002 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Elvis Costello and his drummer again for "No Action"

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 2 December 2002 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

overall, i'll take bill stevenson over george hurley...

the only high hat ref i can think of his is "all-o-gistics" which is kinda annoying but can now be appreciated as some sort of bizarre prog fusion weirdo rant. road rally does indeed rule though.

― gygax!, Monday, 2 December 2002 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins - "1979".. it's the standard eighth-note closed pattern (it might be a drum machine... I'm not sure), but it has some very subtle accents, and that's what's primarily responsible for the push/pull of the song.

― Curtis Stephens, Monday, 2 December 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I second 1979! for so long i felt like I was the only one in the world who new. i was so lonely!
some other pix:
Aphex twin - acrid avid jam shred -
Sausage - prelude to fear -

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 2 December 2002 21:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, the "1979" groove is Jimmy playing drums along with a drum machine loop. And that's a good call...very tasty.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The invention of the TR-808 is a great moment for hi-hats, and music in general.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

a great moment in hihats = me getting my pair of zildjian 14" quick beat hihats with brilliant finish!
oh, and the little hihat part that comes in behind the chorus(?) of "grindin" is so delicate and sublte and magical. (the claps and snape have already been mentioned on ILN as well, and rightly so!)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 2 December 2002 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi,

http://www.jahsonic.com/EarlYoung.html in 1974 "The Player" ::: the break :::: the break

Yours
Jan

― Jan Geerinck, Monday, 2 December 2002 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Every Modest Mouse song ever.

― , Monday, 2 December 2002 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Well several people beat me to Hurley so I'll note Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division, and Everlong by the Foo Fighters.

― Dave Beckhouse (Dave Beckhouse), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

every moment that Vinnie Colaiuta gets behind a drum set.

― bahtology, Tuesday, 3 December 2002 01:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Buddy Rich's hi-hat intro to every uptempo tune, where he was muting the cymbals with his left hand fingers, just washy and funky and classic.

Kenwood Dennard's solo on Maceo Parker's 'Shake Everything You Got' has a lot of great hi-hat moments and subtleties.

Telefon Tel Aviv has lots of great hi-hat stuff.

I third 1979 btw, it sounds so simple but it's so hard to play with that same feel.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 04:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Is Marquee Moon quite different from Adventure?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 06:27 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah how could you forget countless max roach/blakey intros to cookers

― brains (cerybut), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 09:30 (twenty-three years ago)

'Is Marquee Moon quite different from Adventure'

Yeah, different, less urgent, less alive (I was talking specifically about the drums which seem subdued and sometimes pedestrian on 'Adventure'), like he's run out of ideas or been told to keep it simple. The rhythm patterns are less showy and flash, though maybe they might be more solid for that, but they don't take me by surprise or accentuate and decorate the melody as much as the playing on 'Moon' does. Certinly, the 'look at me' hi-hat is gone or at least is much less prominent... I'm not sure now, I need to dig it out and crank the levels up but I always have this question about the difference in drumming on the two records.

― Roger Fascist (Roger Fascist), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 09:51 (twenty-three years ago)

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― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

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― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Tears For Fears: 'Bad Man's Song'
- a track that would also go on my guilty pleasures list - just about in the middle of that song the music breaks down and the hihat goes: ts-g-ts-g-ts-g-ts-g-ts-g-ts-g-tssssiiii in the most delicate way. Ahhhh ......

And also: Lenny Daft Kravitz: 'Always On The Run' for one of the most straight and square, yet rocketeeringly funky hihats ever played...

― Jay K (Jay K), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 11:30 (twenty-three years ago)

the hi-hat thread has been done before but we talked about derrick may and timbaland.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 11:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Ahh - it's been nagging at me and I finally remembered what the song was (I think) .... "Stigmata Martyr"

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

the residents! they wore high hats.
i'm so very very sorry.

― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Great moments in hi hats? I'd have to say ALL OF THEM.

― original bgm, Wednesday, 4 December 2002 03:09 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

programmed hi hat:
Cinematic Orchestra (J Swinscoe)--"Durian"

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 20 February 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone mentioned that moment in "Buffalo Stance" by Neneh Cherry where she formerly introduces the hi-hat? Classic.

Beyond that, I'd say the intro to "Love Removal Machine" by the Cult.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 February 2003 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Church drummer Richard Ploog on "Tantalized" and "Reptile"

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Friday, 21 February 2003 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Woody Woodmansey on the intro of Soul Love

― willem (willem), Friday, 21 February 2003 08:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Dale Hawkins, "Suzie-Q"
Ray Charles, "What I Say"

― Burr, Friday, 21 February 2003 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Van Halen, "Romeo Delight"

― dave q, Friday, 21 February 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Daft Punk 'Revolution 909'
Rhythim Is Rhythim 'Strings Of Life'
Slam 'Positive Education'
Crystal Waters 'Gypsy Woman'
anything by Plastikman

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 21 February 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i forgot abt. this one:
lou reed & john cale - songs for drella [album]

― willem (willem), Friday, 21 February 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

Alan Myers from Devo is a member of the hi-hat aristocracy. Many good ones but "Satisfaction" is as good an example as any.

― everything (everything), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

all of pink flag kills on hi-hats

― PETE SMITH!!!! (plsmith), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Aril Brikha - Deeparture In Time

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

steely dan "peg"... supposedly the first studio song with that half-open hi-hat interplay.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Where is the love for Bernard Purdie and his hi-hat "bark" on "Rock Steady" (and lots of other tracks)?

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Sly Stone "In Time" for the way the hi-hat slips in with the drum machine beat and for the sick barks.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

ooh thats good

― PETE SMITH!!!! (plsmith), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Jah Lloyd - Herbs of Dub

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Time-keeping hi-hat during every Art Blakey solo ever.

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

playaz circle & i-20 - you aint got enough

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

iirc "in time" was one of the biggest inspirations behind on the corner for that very reason

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

8ball & mjg - listen to the lyrics
boss hogg barbarians - reverend get right
three 6 mafia - m.e.m.p.h.i.s.

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Unwound "Corpse Pose"

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Burial- even if you hate this album, the hi hats are fucking good.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's a straight loop, but Soulja Slim - Soulja 4 Life

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Jeep Macnichol to thread

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Cybotron - Clear

― PappaWheelie, don't fuck this up (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Wheres the love for the splash cymbal

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

get that carter beauford shit out of here

― PETE SMITH!!!! (plsmith), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Splash cymbal most overrated cymbal ever followed up by the China cymbal

http://www.fifaonline.it/police/stewart.jpg

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

fuck a splash cymbal

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

OTM the splash cymbal is always wack.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

THATS WHERE THE LOVE FOR THE SPLASH CYMBAL IS

― PETE SMITH!!!! (plsmith), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

I almost wanna say fuck the ride as well b/c if you get the right kind of crash you just hit the bell on it and it can be the bomb but some folks dig dry rides so whatever.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

back to hi-hats, let's NOT forget summer babe

― PETE SMITH!!!! (plsmith), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

DRY RIDES SO SEXY

― PETE SMITH!!!! (plsmith), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

The bell is the worst part of the cymbal.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

RIVETS

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

very true that song would be so different without the pause.

Charlie Watts is the hi hat master. I know it annoys some how he pulls off his hats on the downbeat but the shit he does on his hi hats is amazing. . .Tumbling Dice

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

I will be killed in these parts for saying this, but:

Rush, "The Weapon"

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

oh shit i forgot about RIVETS IN THE CYMBALZ

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

See? Splash cymbal is clearly underrated

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

name ONE good use ever

― PETE SMITH!!!! (plsmith), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

dude no one has said splash cymbals are underrated. YOU CRAZY YEAH I WANNA PAY EIGHTY BUCKS TO ADD SOME ACCENTZ/COLOR 2 MY SINGER's SONGS.

Why would you put a rivet in a splash?

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

re: pete smith - art ensemble of chicago
re: mr. que - i meant its underrated because everyone around here is hating, wasn't referring to yr rivets post

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Splash cymbals don't have rivetz!

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm confused but happy. I'm glad no one has made a splash cymbal w/rivetz

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

mobb deep - 'spread love'

― 6335 (6335), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

"One World" is fine but the true shiznit is the HI HAT SOLO in "Walking on the Moon."

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

I was gonna say Mobb Deep, Shook Ones Pt. 2

― mucho (mucho), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.allparty.co.uk/store/media/hats/11338_Top_Hat_Stovepipe.jpg

― PappaWheelie, don't fuck this up (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

better yet

http://www.costumesinc.com/Costumes/images/medium/43-50.jpg

― PappaWheelie, don't fuck this up (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

bwa huaha ...oh, lord roflstein

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

the splash cymbal can be a signifier of the ridiculous, but lets not bring the china into this...

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

really, Stewart Copeland should be given about a billion dollars for making hi-hat seems really fucking cool.

and china, well, it's only the best cymbal

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

"China"? The Johnny Rivers song?

― The Redd 47 Ronin (Ken L), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

yes

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Class Action - Weekend (Larry Levan Weekend Mix)

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Those glittery phased out hi hats in the intro to 'Dancing In Outer Space'

― gaseous (gaseous), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

Robert Gotobed, as mentioned above, plus all of Metal Box

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Thursday, 2 November 2006 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

and ACR's Flight

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Friday, 3 November 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

The Clean's "Thumbs Off."

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Friday, 3 November 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

Personally, I always felt the greatest moment in hi-hat was during the solo in Voices Inside My Head. Then I relaized it was overdubbed. But, does that really matter?

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 3 November 2006 07:38 (nineteen years ago)

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