Showing posts with label Kenny Burrell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kenny Burrell. Show all posts

Sunday, August 04, 2024

Jazz loop, rock loop

Two practice loops I've been enjoying, one jazz, one rock. 

The first is sampled from Everydays, a Stephen Stills song, played by Kenny Burrell on the album Blues - The Common Ground. Tempo is 124:


The other is by Luna, sampled from the song The Alibi. Tempo is 90 BPM: 

Sunday, September 02, 2012

Groove o' the day: a Blue Note waltz

Let's do an easy one. Here's Billy Gene English sketching out a simple, Blue Note-y, quasi-Latin waltz on the tune Wavy Gravy, from Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue:




Swing the 8th notes. You can think of this in 6/4, if you want. The bass drum on the track is basically inaudible, but it's fairly safe to assume it's there— after the opening vamp the bassist puts a big emphasis on 1, and I think English's bass drum is hiding behind it.

Audio after the break: