#14.31 "Wing Body Wing"

Sorry for the break between updates! I'll try to stay regular and not neglect this page, but it's bound to happen, so... deal.

So I saw Four Tet a couple weekends back at Moogfest in Asheville, NC (best experience I've ever had seeing live music), and I've been listening to him a bit more frequently / in depth since then. Today I came up with what I thought were some "good ones" while drumming to some of his stuff which I'll split up into a few posts.

#14.31 || Track Rec: "Wing Body Wing"

This exercise is made up of constant sixteenth notes, which should make it a (relative) breeze to line up to a metronome, or a song like "Wing Body Wing" which features a prominent "four on the floor" feel ("house" bass drum on every quarter note). #14.31 is all about controlling the note after the accent (the "e"s), and developing that control is necessary to successfully play a diddle or buzz after an accent with any quality.

Note: the buzzes/presses are marked staccato, so keep them short. I'll also probably continue to write the staccato marks (as well as accents and tenuto marks) above the stem rather than below the notehead for the sake of simplicity.

Four Tet - Wing Body Wing @ YouTube