{"id":36745,"date":"2022-08-19T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=36745"},"modified":"2022-08-22T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T21:31:41","slug":"art-blakey-drum-grooves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/art-blakey-drum-grooves\/","title":{"rendered":"We Broke Down Art Blakey&#8217;s 3 Most Celebrated Grooves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yNlLDraG920\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/p><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art Blakey was a legendary drummer who, in the 40s and 50s, was a pioneer in modern bebop drumming. He played with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/a-drummers-guide-to-jazz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jazz greats<\/a> like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonius Monk and recorded over 70 albums with his band, Art Blakey &amp; The Jazz Messengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known for his bold swing style, showmanship and total independence on the kit, his drumming inspired thousands of players in the 20th century and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this video &#8211; <em>filmed on the exact type of drums Art Blakey used in the &#8217;60s<\/em> &#8211; Brandon Toews breaks down some of his most famous drum grooves and explains why he was one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/top-25-jazz-drummers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most in-demand jazz drummers<\/a> of his time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. &#8220;Caravan&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/17100206\/caravan.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36761\" width=\"841\" height=\"388\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This Afro-Cuban groove, often called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/5-latin-grooves-every-drummer-should-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nanigo<\/a>, has a cool pattern on the ride bell. Keep that quarter note pulse going with your hi-hat foot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. &#8220;A Night In Tunisia&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/17100215\/tunisia.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36763\" width=\"840\" height=\"374\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This one uses double strokes between the floor tom and rack tom, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/5-latin-grooves-every-drummer-should-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mozambique <\/a>bell pattern, and feet alternating through the groove. Art Blakey used to play &#8220;A Night In Tunisia&#8221; at an insane tempo: around 290 BPM. In this video, Brandon keeps it &#8220;chill&#8221; at 280.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. &#8220;Moanin'&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/17100214\/moanin.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36762\" width=\"841\" height=\"622\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the original jazz shuffle! While you maintain a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/first-jazz-lesson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">standard jazz pattern<\/a> on the ride, you&#8217;ll create a shuffle feel by alternating ghost notes on the snare with backbeats on 2 and 4. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you enjoyed this lesson, check out full note-for-note transcriptions of these songs (plus 1000s of other songs and lessons) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drumeo members area<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We break down some of the most famous drum parts played by legendary jazz drummer Art Blakey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":36825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36745"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36826,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36745\/revisions\/36826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}