This has got to be one of the fonkiest tunes on the planet. And I
want to mkae a suggestion to you. Find this recording and ingest
it! OK, OK, it may look easy. But check out Jab'o Starks' playing.
It's so laid back and groovin', it 'bout to scares me to death!
Listen, check out the way this tune goes from the verse to the bridge.
This is the real stuff here. The groove is so deep...man, you just gotta
check it out!
I had a great experience just the other day, in a class I teach at
the Musicians Institute here in LA. I teach a class, along with bass
instructor Alexis Sklarevsky. The class is called "James Brown
101"! I wanted the drummers to feel how it feels to play bass with
a drummer. The bass part for this tune is relatively simple, so one
of my drum students played bass and a bass student played drums. It
was an awesome experience for both guys. So, maybe you can try this
with your bassist!
Here's the drum groove, broken down into "Basic" (the lesson)
and "Original Verse Grooves". Please, find this tune and play
along with it. Try and cop Jab's slinky, down home, "grits and
gravy" feel.
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