Dave Weckl's Tower of Inspiration

After a looong absence..I 'm back! Thought I'd like to share this video I made about 2 days ago with everyone here.

Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo1qTgnqkWM

Cheers,

A.

I'd just like to say a big thank you to veryone who watched the video.. thanks for viewing, cheers!

TOI is still on my top 5 faves list of recorded drumming. Don't know how much editing or triggering's on there but for sheer funk factor, it's an 11. Do you know if he wrote the whole thing?

There's also this Cuban salsa-ish stuff that's pretty wild. I forget what they call it.

You know, I started working on this 'project' mid March of this year, and after days and weeks of listening to this song, I started wondering the same thing.. was the song recorded in one (or a few) live take(s), or done in sections? I'm not sure about triggering, possibly some editing.. I think he wrote this with Jay Oliver, as most of his stuff are.

I bought the CD when it came out last century and it's only been recently that I can listen to it in straight four with no mental glitches.

I can't listen to this without any "mental glitches." So anybody care to explain this groove to me?

If you haven't got the original track, get it. The interplay is mind boggling but you can't hear it on these clips. Other than that it's 4/4 funk with the 16ths grouped weird. The steady four on the bell is the 'actual' pulse. There are also spots where it briefly lands on normal spots revealing the steady four.

Adrienne can map out the actual beat for you. I've never bothered learning it.

To everyone who has cracked their heads trying to figure out the song (like I did), I think the whole song is in 4/4 time.. no odd times.. Except for the brief 2/4 after the 'explosion' sound effect. It's just the way Weckl phrased the song which makes it sound cool and 'out'.