I was lucky enough to jam with Clyde at the Frequency in Madison. One of the nicest guys I've ever had the pleasure of playing with. Rest in peace my brother.
Cold Sweat was the first drum solo I've heard, and to this day, I've not heard a more perfect drum solo. And as tight as it was, he still put various unique acts while still maintaining the only perfectly timed and precise drum solo I've ever heard
Not really. Kraftwerk-inspired synth music mixed with funk became Electro and that's the genesis of hip hop. Afrika Bambaata's afrofuturistic take on funk had more to do with the birth of hip hop than Clyde did.
They are all innovators but the first ever hip hop tracks were funk/disco inspired, look up King tim iii (personality jock) which pre dated sugarhill gangs rappers delight and kurtis blow the breaks, some of the first ever hip hop tracks. I think clives drumming influenced the golden era/boom bap era of the 90s, which is my personal favourite. Kraftwerk influenced loads of genres and were brilliant, bringing out those sounds in the 70s is wild when you hear what else was around!
@@itslikeajungle Agreed. Rapper's Delight is on record as being the first hiphop track, but the multi-disclipline movement (breakdancing, rapping, grafitti) solidified when Planet Rock landed in '82.
Clyde is such a humble and polite man. He came from an Era where you just played by feel... and figured it out on your own. Today, everyone wants to super analyze things and break it down to notes and measures... you can study the mathematics of it until the cows come come... if you can't play it with FEEL ... it means nothing. God Bless you Clyde you were part of history.
You might notice that he never played it the same way he played it on the original record. The many artists who sampled that record made money off that without giving Clyde anything
@@mohddalibinzali1165 he played it perfectly on the album, but after all the other artists sampling it without giving him credit for it, he never played it again
so this drummer made one song and said after this he never got much more and laughed it off... one of the most world-famous songs ever.. can someone explain if he had bad luck or not get any serious jobs after that had to do with the time for black drummers or if he was fired due to being hard to work with or what happened to him? thanks.. the drums sound as it was back then, the way drums should be! :))
I love hearing these explain things that they don't really think about... which is why they have hard times explaining cause they're not musically trained musicians... that's just pure soul and practice...I love to hear them say some mumble jibberish then say...boom go into the example... when they do the mumble and it with "say' or 'so i" without finishing the sentence... get ready for them to play some soulful beautiful shit lmao... what he do at 3:55
He's so lovely ❤ and of course talented. I've not seen the whole interview, but I don't enjoy the dynamic with the interviewer here. He's going through the motions and I dare I say even acting superior to CS. I don't get that at all.
I found other commentators said clyde dont play this song well in album because james brown dont give him money he deserve🤔. Which mean in this clip clyde playing that beat so well but not in the album. Is that true?
Interesting that Clyde doesn't quite play the Funky Drummer properly here - there is a bass kick missing. There are two possible reasons for this: one, in his senior years he may have found it difficult to play so he left it out (or simply forgot) and second possibility, as some will have you believe, he deliberately played it incorrectly because he resented that beat due to the millions in royalties Brown got from it when Clyde got nothing. There are, as far as I am aware, no videos of Clyde playing the Funky Drummer correctly from the time he left James' band to the day he died. Naturally, people were always asking him to play it and he always did it wrong. My own belief is that he did resent what happened and he deliberately didn't do it correctly. He was by all accounts a very nice, polite man so he'd rather play it a bit wrong than tell people the truth (which might have tainted their views on him - unfairly, in my opinion, given the way he got shafted by Brown).
With all due respect, even though what he’s playing here also sounds great, theses are not the same patterns as the iconic recordings. The original Cold Sweat has open hi-hats on the and of one and the and of three; the original Funky Drummer has a continuous flow of sixteenth notes on the hi-hat.
Sixteenth notes being kept in the right hand at @ 96 bpm is a challenge in itself, then throwing in the syncopation and occasional buzz strokes and accents. I think, no matter who you are, you need to be in top form to be playing "The Funky Drummer" the way Clyde did originally. And, you need the right set-up for it to be as tight.
He didn't forget. He deeply resented the fact that his beats made other people very rich, when he got nothing for his hard work. When he got sick later in life, he couldn't afford his medical treatment and he relied on hand-outs from musicians in his home city. People were always asking him to play this stuff but he never did it right for that reason. It's well documented this was the case.
Keep Respect on his name. Rip Sir we've Always loved you 🕊️🕊️🎶🎶🥁🥁🥁
Funky Drummer is the most versatile drum groove ever. It’s also the most fun to play but most importantly, chicks dig it…
Every dj and rapper owes his life to this man, especially considering djs stole his beats without so much as a mention or a thank you.
I was lucky enough to jam with Clyde at the Frequency in Madison. One of the nicest guys I've ever had the pleasure of playing with. Rest in peace my brother.
That's HUGE!
Purdie, Stubblefield, just two examples how funky drumming leads to happiness :)
The great ones always make it look easy.
Like he's flipping a newspaper, waiting for the bus.
Amazing how that one thing in life, can change an era .....amazing riff...what a drummer👍🏻
The laugh at the end of each explanation is awesome
Sure is
Dudes like this who naturally got the groove make it sound so frikkin good.
Wow. Clyde is an absolute Monster!
Love his laugh ❤
Cold Sweat was the first drum solo I've heard, and to this day, I've not heard a more perfect drum solo. And as tight as it was, he still put various unique acts while still maintaining the only perfectly timed and precise drum solo I've ever heard
Chapeau. 😊
Wow!! This rewires your brain come practice time....those ghost notes...thanks for posting...we enjoyed this...gold!!😀
LOVE IT ! I love how he laughs at it each time :)
The end was crazy! Loved it!
1:06 At 1,5 speed it's totally drum & bass. This man was definitely a pioneer.
It makes one dance like James Brown, it explains everything!
Played with and recorded with him on the road. Great! Good guy to road with!
I'm a bassist who would've totally lost it with Clyde playing!
Best Drummer in the world 🥁🌍
It is good to give him his flowers.
THE ONE.🥁💯🔥 CLYDE "THE GLIDE" STUBBLEFIELD.
Clyde have some heavy skillz 😮
Ladies and gentlemen, this is how Hip-Hop was born!
Not really. Kraftwerk-inspired synth music mixed with funk became Electro and that's the genesis of hip hop. Afrika Bambaata's afrofuturistic take on funk had more to do with the birth of hip hop than Clyde did.
They are all innovators but the first ever hip hop tracks were funk/disco inspired, look up King tim iii (personality jock) which pre dated sugarhill gangs rappers delight and kurtis blow the breaks, some of the first ever hip hop tracks.
I think clives drumming influenced the golden era/boom bap era of the 90s, which is my personal favourite.
Kraftwerk influenced loads of genres and were brilliant, bringing out those sounds in the 70s is wild when you hear what else was around!
@@itslikeajungle
Agreed. Rapper's Delight is on record as being the first hiphop track, but the multi-disclipline movement (breakdancing, rapping, grafitti) solidified when Planet Rock landed in '82.
Clyde is such a humble and polite man.
He came from an Era where you just played by feel... and figured it out on your own.
Today, everyone wants to super analyze things and break it down to notes and measures...
you can study the mathematics of it until the cows come come...
if you can't play it with FEEL ... it means nothing.
God Bless you Clyde
you were part of history.
Masterful so cool!!!
Number One Forever 🎶👊💥🥁❤
Ginger Baker talked about drummers who had "swing"!?
Clyde had it in spades!! So darned impressive 👍😎👍
Pure genius
one of ten best.
What a likeable man😊
Genius brotha 🥁🥁🥁🔥🔥🔥🙌🏿✨
Yes Yes!! Thanks 4 Break
Nothing to it.. just this this and this.. and all the sudden ... magic
Genius !
Legend
4:23 YEAH
Interestingly, here Clyde forgets the main signature of the funky drummer break. The open hi-hat...
And he doesn't play the double bass kick either.
Clyde, you knew my Good friend Pierre Holden, Producer & Trombonist, what's Good Stubb,...
He makes those drums sound like a million bucks
Great video.
it’s where the funk shodld be
You might notice that he never played it the same way he played it on the original record. The many artists who sampled that record made money off that without giving Clyde anything
Yup, it all went in Brown's pocket. That is why he refused to play it correctly until the day he died.
Justin, u mean he played worse in that album?
@@mohddalibinzali1165 he played it perfectly on the album, but after all the other artists sampling it without giving him credit for it, he never played it again
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so this drummer made one song and said after this he never got much more and laughed it off... one of the most world-famous songs ever.. can someone explain if he had bad luck or not get any serious jobs after that had to do with the time for black drummers or if he was fired due to being hard to work with or what happened to him? thanks.. the drums sound as it was back then, the way drums should be! :))
POV: You're looking for a spiderman 2 comment.
Never heard of this legend before that mission in Spider-Man 2, but I’m definitely familiar with his work.
and they say video games arent educational...
cold sweat was in spiderman 2?
the funky drummer dont close the harlem center
Wow lol
I love hearing these explain things that they don't really think about... which is why they have hard times explaining cause they're not musically trained musicians... that's just pure soul and practice...I love to hear them say some mumble jibberish then say...boom go into the example... when they do the mumble and it with "say' or 'so i" without finishing the sentence... get ready for them to play some soulful beautiful shit lmao... what he do at 3:55
He's so lovely ❤ and of course talented.
I've not seen the whole interview, but I don't enjoy the dynamic with the interviewer here. He's going through the motions and I dare I say even acting superior to CS.
I don't get that at all.
Snare is nice
How Hip Hop beats were created.
bass too in front at the beginning, right?
ayye 4:44 I C U
Pee Wee Ellis credits Miles Davis' So What as the origin of Cold Sweat
It's called the fatback
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whats cold sweat time signature jn this video? Doesn't sound 4/4
I found other commentators said clyde dont play this song well in album because james brown dont give him money he deserve🤔. Which mean in this clip clyde playing that beat so well but not in the album. Is that true?
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Interesting that Clyde doesn't quite play the Funky Drummer properly here - there is a bass kick missing. There are two possible reasons for this: one, in his senior years he may have found it difficult to play so he left it out (or simply forgot) and second possibility, as some will have you believe, he deliberately played it incorrectly because he resented that beat due to the millions in royalties Brown got from it when Clyde got nothing. There are, as far as I am aware, no videos of Clyde playing the Funky Drummer correctly from the time he left James' band to the day he died. Naturally, people were always asking him to play it and he always did it wrong. My own belief is that he did resent what happened and he deliberately didn't do it correctly. He was by all accounts a very nice, polite man so he'd rather play it a bit wrong than tell people the truth (which might have tainted their views on him - unfairly, in my opinion, given the way he got shafted by Brown).
With all due respect, even though what he’s playing here also sounds great, theses are not the same patterns as the iconic recordings. The original Cold Sweat has open hi-hats on the and of one and the and of three; the original Funky Drummer has a continuous flow of sixteenth notes on the hi-hat.
That snare def gotta be higher tuned as well 😅 but oh well what can you do mate
I’m not a drummer but it sounded a little different than a video I watched from around 1970. He’s still awesome.
Sixteenth notes being kept in the right hand at @ 96 bpm is a challenge in itself, then throwing in the syncopation and occasional buzz strokes and accents. I think, no matter who you are, you need to be in top form to be playing "The Funky Drummer" the way Clyde did originally. And, you need the right set-up for it to be as tight.
it still got the funk.
he also missed out the double bass kick.
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Carter Orchard
Sounds like ODB
Ethan Trace
Marks Common
He sounds like Rick James.
NO disrespect but that's not the beat on the original recordings of Cold Sweat & Funky Drummer. Clyde probably forgot, it's normal as you age
He didn't forget. He deeply resented the fact that his beats made other people very rich, when he got nothing for his hard work. When he got sick later in life, he couldn't afford his medical treatment and he relied on hand-outs from musicians in his home city. People were always asking him to play this stuff but he never did it right for that reason. It's well documented this was the case.
John Bonham is number one. Clyde is number two for different reasons. Then Dave Grohl. Easily my 1 2 3.
"Put em both togetha!"