SteveW
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More on Joy of Life drumming 02-Sep-2025 23:23:21
| CorrsClub Time: 08-Sep-2026 00:03:18 |
Here's something I didn't notice earlier about the performance of Joy of Life with Sharon and Caroline that I included in my previous post. Here's the video again:
In most pop/rock songs, the drummer hits the kick drum on the 1st and 3rd beat of each bar, and the snare drum on the 2nd and 4th. From 0:38 to 1:39 of the video, though, the drummer is playing in half-time -- he's playing the kick on the 1st beat, and the snare on the 3rd, so in other words he's playing half as fast as a typical beat, so it takes 2 bars to get through the kick-snare-kick-snare pattern instead of one bar. i.e., the pattern is kick - 2 - snare - 4 instead of kick - snare - kick - snare.
(Technically, the beat is a shuffle in 12/8, but I'm going to think of it as 4/4 to keep things simple. You can think of it as 1-2-3 / 2-2-3 / 3-2-3 / 4-2-3.)
At 1:09 Caroline starts beating the tipper on the frame of the bodhran. She does so at the same time that a drummer would hit the snare on a "standard" (as opposed to half-time) beat, on the 2nd and 4th beats of each bar. So Caroline is playing something that sounds like 1 - crack - 3 - crack, where "crack" represents hitting the bodhran frame. During this part of the song, then, the two percussive parts overlap, with the drummer playing in half time and Caroline playing in standard time, resulting in a nice kick - crack - snare - crack beat that really drives the song forward. To echo Yrisea's original comment, I think this is a much more effective beat than playing the cajon alone.
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