How many songs can you name that use this beat?

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How many songs can you name that use this beat (sorry I don't know what it's called)? It goes sorta like this:

snare/hihat - s/h - s/h kick s/h kick

eg:

Stone Roses - I am the Resurection
The Fall - Step Sideways
Bodyjar - Hazy Shade of Winter (cover)

Blantant self-promotion / Admission of failure.

I find this fairly difficult to play, especially while singing (=shouting). Hear me fuck it up (though cleverly masked by a sample) on 'Rock Action': http://www.mp3.com.au/thesalivationarmy/

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 18 March 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

It took me a while to work out your notation, but yeah: that's a great and obviously oft-used beat. I'm surprised you find it hard -- it's one of approximately 4 beats that I can actually manage on real drums. I'd notate: X-X-XOXO, with X = snare and 0 = kick. Favorite variation = double disco hats in between the first snares. (Double-time notation: X-``X-``X-O-X-O-)

― nabiscothingy (nory), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea what I'm posting about anymore.

― nabiscothingy (nory), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

sounds like Sly & the Family Stone - "Dance to the Music" to me

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

Is this the one in the Unicorns "I Was Born A Unicorn"?

― i am nervous (cochere), Friday, 18 March 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

You guys need to learn how to write music.

― deej., Friday, 18 March 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

s/h - kick -

― deej., Friday, 18 March 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

*CRASH*

― deej., Friday, 18 March 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

You guys need to learn how to write music.

No, I play drums.

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 18 March 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

If I understand right, it's a bit like the beat on the opening track of Bitches Brew (which is actually a more complicated variation on it, I think).

Basically, it's just an old gospel stomp type beat that's probably used on tons of R&B stuff.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 18 March 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

No, I play drums.

You know music works, like, rhythmically too, right?

― deej., Friday, 18 March 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

Bikini Kill - "Rebel Girl"
The Decemberists - "Song for Myla Goldberg"

― uiopjk789 (uiopjk789), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Umm dude both of the notations above perfectly musical; items are eighth notes, hyphens are rests; cause ya know it'd be just a wee bit of trouble to go setting up staves and shit. Possibly it's hard to read them properly from your high horse.

― nabiscothingy (nory), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like the classic Motown beat, no? What about "Pounding" by Doves, is that it?

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, if you're talking about what I think you're talking about it's what I think of as a gospel or Motown beat (snare on all quarter notes with the bass drum filling in). It's true that it rarely fails.

xposts

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Damn, I was gonna say Rebel Girl!

Actually doesn't Rebel Rebel by David Bowie have this beat?? I can't quite picture the song in my head at the moment (I'm at work)

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Spoon, "Someone Something"
Reigning Sound, like half of their tunes

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Primal Scream, "Rocks"

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

(In fact, the above song ruined that beat for me for all time - used in such a cycnical, upfront way)

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Billy Bragg, "Cindy of a Thousands Lives"

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

There's countless live sweaty Geno Washington bootlegs that are drench in this beat, too.

― Huey (Huey), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

No, I play drums.
You know music works, like, rhythmically too, right?
-- deej. (sle...), March 18th, 2005.

No, I play drums.

― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Flipper's Guitar - 'Winnie The Pooh Mugcup Collection'
The Beastie Boys - 'Egg Man'

Was thinking about this just yesterday.

― BARMS, Friday, 18 March 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Which also means my 3rd nom was: Cornelius (ex-Flipper's) - 'Moon Light Story'

― BARMS, Friday, 18 March 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, it's "Mystery Achievement" by The Pretenders too.

And maybe the intro and chorus to "Happy Together" by The Jam, if I remember correctly.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Take That - 'Could It Be Magic'?

― BARMS, Friday, 18 March 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

sebadoh, "flame"

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

'The Light Pours Out Of Me' by Magazine and 'Eye Of The Lens' by the Comsat Angels spring to mind, but I dunno if they're exactly the same as the way you've notated them.

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman v1.0 (Ferg), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Is the snare coming in on beat one? I have a 56k i can't download shit right now so I'm still not sure i know what this beat is supposed to sound like, but that doesnt sounds right to me.

― deej., Friday, 18 March 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm not trying to be an asshole about it, it was just weird notation.

― deej., Friday, 18 March 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

deej., the snare and hat together are on one, two, three, and four.

The kick is on the "and" after three and the "and" after the four. Look at it this way:

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
h x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---
s x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---
k ----------x---x-----------x---x-

At least that's the beat of "Myla Goldberg." I can't speak for any of the other examples.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

(Whoops--that would have looked fine if it'd stayed in a fixed-width font. Paste it into Notepad or whatever if you want.)

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

the pre tag is yr friend

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

It's totally the beat of "Myla Goldberg." Which Motown songs use this exact beat? I'm sort of hearing "You Can't Hurry Love" in my head, but I think it's somewhat different.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I hear it now....it sounds like an intro or something, what other songs use it?

― deej., Friday, 18 March 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Sly & the Family Stone - "Dance to the Music"

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

pretty much half my old band's songs

― mat, Friday, 18 March 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

"Purple Haze"?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Ken L beat me to it!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 18 March 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

Lots of soul music from the 60s (Motown, Stax) to thread.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

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