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He begins with the rubbery synth bass, loose machine drums and spacey pads of 'Walking To The Beat', before reaching for some vintage soulful vocal samples and oodles of sonic smoothness of the ...

Traditionally, if you wanted to learn the drums, you found a teacher in your area, booked a lesson and started on your merry way to becoming the next John Bonham - that’s how I learned. But in this ...

The track showed how electronic instruments such as the synthesizer and drum machine could recast traditional rhythmic patterns into ... Kool Herc’s breakbeat manipulation provided the ...

For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and ...

The track showed how electronic instruments such as the synthesizer and drum machine could recast traditional rhythmic patterns into something entirely new ... In a similar way, Kool Herc’s breakbeat ...

The song begins with a six bar intro: two bars of the '80s-sounding drums by themselves, and then four bars of an equally '80s-sounding synthesizer groove. The drum pattern is a Motown-ish twist on ...

Marrying jazz riffs, breakbeats and epic melodies, the Manchester band delivers stadium-ready tracks ... There's plenty of weight, too, with complex drum patterns in the top end, so the bass shouldn't ...