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hey everyone welcome here we're here
with the legendary david garibaldi and
uh
many of you have probably seen his
special lesson here on drumeo and we
also have a course from david inside of
drumeo but when we were kind of
preparing for all this he started
talking about this king kong beat
and and i asked him a question i said is
this like because you're you're saying
this is this is it this is what a lot of
what you do is based off of and and it
kind of got to the point where it's like
well this is like one of the most
important beats you've ever learned
right pretty much and so i thought it'd
be cool to film a video and just ask you
a little bit about it and talk a little
bit about exactly what it is and so what
is the king kong beat where did you
learn it from and and you know how has
it really inspired you oh they're
playing the king kong beat was kind of
like legendary in you know amongst
drummer pals of mine uh in the early 70s
you know and i had a friend of mine who
lived in los angeles
who used to tell me about
this band called red bone
and the drummer had this beat that he
called the king kong
so
finally when i you know i heard them got
their album right
and the song was called prehistoric
rhythm and the lyric was
prehistoric rhythm with the king kong
beat
right nice and so the drummer is pete
depoe
great
drummer lives in
in washington
killer player
and he was playing
uh a rhythm kind of on the bell of his
symbol all the time right or even on sky
hat that was basically this three four
so you find that in lots of latin music
yeah right so it's very common right but
he took it and he had it on the drum set
right so he would play beats that
sounded similar to this
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right right and he used the bell as a
symbol
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you know i'm kind of improvising a
little bit but that's kind of the you
know the vibe of
of what he was doing right so
i took that and kind of started fooling
around with it
right and um it completely
opened up all of my playing because
prior to that was my playing was done in
a very traditional sort of way
everything was you know with the eighth
note hi-hat or 16th note hi-hat things
like that right yeah
and all of the syncopations were
basically coming from my snare and bass
drum you know very traditional right but
then when i saw that
and then i had also been listening to
ziggabu with the meters
that that sort of
changed everything about my playing you
know i realized
wow i can
incorporate a lot of this stuff into
what i was doing then i just also was
like listening to latin music
and
uh
as we talked about in the live lesson
the thing with
um
latin music was there was no drum set
at the time at least not the kind of
drum set that appears in loud music
today you know for cuban stuff the timba
and all that you know
but there's this
incredible groove going on
but there's no drum set right so i'm
thinking
well i can take some of these things
that i'm learning right
and play them in a non-traditional sort
of way and get them to groove
right
so the king kong sort of helped me
uh in that direction
awesome
can we just uh just so we give a clear
picture of exactly what it looks like we
will transcribe it out and get you to
play it along with the metronome um
and then we can just put it on screen
and show everyone exactly how it looks
okay so it's very paradiddle-ish right
right so
paradiddle being this
parts of the king kong are in there
right
and so
when you add
the king kong rhythm to it
so what i did is i just added kind of
that layering concept which we'll talk
about in you know in another lesson
but
notes that overlap
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so those are all three of the parts and
how they
you know overlap cool
so can we put it to
the metronome then so i'll start with
the hands first sure
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so there's a few
little variations right that sounds
great then you can orchestrate it
uh
you know using
different voices right yeah
hi-hat instead of hi-hat either a bell
right or the bell of the symbol or
another cool one is to use the bell and
then play all the ghosted notes
over here
on your hi-hat
and the accented notes
on your snare drum right so
the basic pattern is this
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so if you play quarter notes here
and then you play the unaccent notes
over here yeah then you get a little
swish before
one and three
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you've got all these different layers of
right things going on you know that you
can do yeah so it's like you spoke in
the beginning how we're playing those
constant eighth notes or sixteenth notes
this is kind of one of those grooves
that can really kind of get you out of
that rut and it takes a lot of
coordination by
you know you talked about the linear
versus versus layered because parts of
that are linear but then you're layering
different different notes over over top
of that the layering uh
is considerably more difficult to line
everything up you know and
if
it's something that's comfortable for
you to do
fine
if it's not then a more linear approach
is
you know you can work on that but
really playing what we do here is is
both yeah
exactly you're late it's always linear
it's going to be one or the other or
combination of both
leaning more to one side than the other
depending on kind of
where your ideas are taking you right
awesome well i love that the title of
lessons most important being i ever
learned because it's your most important
beat absolutely that's the truth yeah
and i'm sure everyone you know
i would recommend giving this a try get
to your kits give it a try get your kids
folks
get to your kids give it a try and kind
of you know experiment around with it
and try and come up with something of
your own because i think like for me i
have those those uh those beats that
i've kind of latched on to and that i
play all the time and they've been
really in you know inspired me to kind
of come up with my own sound and i think
we all have those those types of drum
beats and so um thank you for sharing
yours we really pleasure we really
appreciate it and if you haven't checked
out david's live lesson on our youtube
channel um or inside of drumeo you
should definitely do that we've got a
full course with david inside of drumeo
for our members as well so check that
out if you can
thank you so much a pleasure for doing
this man get to your kids get to your
kits and go practice
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