From the course: Drum Set Lessons: On the Beaten Path
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"Unkfunky UFO" by Parliament
From the course: Drum Set Lessons: On the Beaten Path
"Unkfunky UFO" by Parliament
- The next funky beat that we're gonna learn is from a song called Unfunky UFO from Parliament and it goes like this. One, two. One, two, three, four. So let's start off by just establishing the basic, basic beat. Just gonna play eighth notes on the high hat, two and four on the snare and base drum on all four beats. Like this. One, two. One, two, three, four. That's your basic four on the floor rock beat, okay? But we're gonna make it funky by adding in some ghosts notes. So let's do that here. One, two. One, two, three, four. Now, let's change up where placed the ghosts notes. This time we're gonna put them on the E of beat one and the E of beat three. Like this. One, two. One, two, three, four. Now, when you put all the accents in all the ghosts notes in it's gonna sound like this. One, two. One, two, three, four. So now the beat is sounding a lot closer to what Zigaboo actually played on the recording, but it's not quite there yet. We haven't brought in the open hi hat. So to…
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"Groovy Lady" by The Meters1m 47s
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"Doodle Loop" by The Meters1m 46s
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"Unkfunky UFO" by Parliament3m 4s
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"You Can Make It If You Try" by Sly & the Family Stone1m 42s
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"Tippi-Toes" by The Meters1m 47s
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"Brick House" by The Commodores2m 51s
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"Chameleon" by Herbie Hancock2m 51s
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"Thinking" by The Meters1m 51s
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"Super Bad (Part 1)" by James Brown2m 41s
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