Jag Mandir
'Jag Mandir' is a documentary by Werner Herzogabout a grand cultural performance in Udaipur, India. One of the dance and music acts of the performance contains a funky rhythm that i've adapted to drum set and call 'Jag Mandir'. Here is a lo-fi mobile phone recording of me playing it:
The Apprentice
By Billy Martin from 'Illy Beats Volume 2'.
How You Buy Fire
I hereby start a beat log, a collection of danceable rhythms. Let the first item of the collection be the introduction to 'How You Buy Fire', an Afrobeat-inspired percussion piece i cowrote. Here is a lo-fi mobile phone recording of me playing the introduction:
Lucky Charm
By Billy Martin from 'Illy Beats Volume 2'.
Mahi
Mahi is a traditional Haitian vodou rhythm. Here is a recording of the rhythm from the instructional album Drum by Geoff Johns. And here is a transcription of the rhythm by me.
Rocking Man
By Billy Martin from 'Illy Beats Volume 2'.
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