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208 | Rick Beato on the Theory of Popular Music

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Drum Beats Are Not Human Grooves

The perfect drummer will be just exactly on time right like the same amount of interval between every two beats in the measure or whatever it is. And so what could be bad about fixing that because real drummers are not you know John Bonham was not exactly marching to a metronome but during most of those Led Zeppelin songs. So I find that the the human element of these great drummers such as Bernard Purdy and he had a drum beat called the Purdy Shuffle that they use in Steely Dansson home at last and Sisters of Babylon. It's almost impossible to do a great shuffle as program a great shuffle to where it feels really good because there's so many dynamics

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