Perhaps someone could help me out with this. I will do my best to describe a song I heard on a commercial that is an instrumental.
I'm not really a drummer, but I had taken lessons when I was younger. I will use that slight background in the instrument to describe, as best I can, the song.
Okay, first, like I said at the beginning, it is an instrumental. It seems to be a song from either the 1950s or 1960s. It also seems to be in the genre of a surf-type piece.
I want to say, if memory serves from what I heard of it, that it was in 6/4 or 6/8 time signature (that always confused me). My first instinct is to say 6/8, but it was in 6 to the best of my recollection.
There was, I believe, kick notes on the 1, 5, 6, or on the 4,5,6. When I tap it out, I instinctively go to the former. Thus, it is something like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6
B.........B.B
(By the way, it is possible there was a B (bass drum) on the 3, because if you play that groove in mid/fast-tempo, one almost naturally does that.)
Now, for those who are musicians, picture that groove, done with a rock feel but sort of being something from the doo-wop era, if you get what I mean. There were three power chords that formed the main hook of the tune. I can't describe them any better than that, but they were definitely prominent. They probably came in on either even or odd numbers on the 6-count of the drums; in other words, if the first chord started on the two, it would then be 2-4-6. Again, going by memory, I could be completely wrong on the math. But because the notes on the drums were somewhat quick, the power chords almost slowed the song down (this is not a fast-tempo song, I don't think, but when you play the hi-hat notes, they certainly could not be played in a slow-blues way).
That's the best I can do. Any ideas? Thanks.
I'm not really a drummer, but I had taken lessons when I was younger. I will use that slight background in the instrument to describe, as best I can, the song.
Okay, first, like I said at the beginning, it is an instrumental. It seems to be a song from either the 1950s or 1960s. It also seems to be in the genre of a surf-type piece.
I want to say, if memory serves from what I heard of it, that it was in 6/4 or 6/8 time signature (that always confused me). My first instinct is to say 6/8, but it was in 6 to the best of my recollection.
There was, I believe, kick notes on the 1, 5, 6, or on the 4,5,6. When I tap it out, I instinctively go to the former. Thus, it is something like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6
B.........B.B
(By the way, it is possible there was a B (bass drum) on the 3, because if you play that groove in mid/fast-tempo, one almost naturally does that.)
Now, for those who are musicians, picture that groove, done with a rock feel but sort of being something from the doo-wop era, if you get what I mean. There were three power chords that formed the main hook of the tune. I can't describe them any better than that, but they were definitely prominent. They probably came in on either even or odd numbers on the 6-count of the drums; in other words, if the first chord started on the two, it would then be 2-4-6. Again, going by memory, I could be completely wrong on the math. But because the notes on the drums were somewhat quick, the power chords almost slowed the song down (this is not a fast-tempo song, I don't think, but when you play the hi-hat notes, they certainly could not be played in a slow-blues way).
That's the best I can do. Any ideas? Thanks.
