Funky Drummer is the most versatile drum groove ever. It’s also the most fun to play but most importantly, chicks dig it…
@crazydrummerofdoom9 ай бұрын
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.
@alexanderconrad60178 ай бұрын
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.
@davidmolnar82518 ай бұрын
That's HUGE!
@mumblbeebee654611 ай бұрын
Purdie, Stubblefield, just two examples how funky drumming leads to happiness :)
@gerrythrash6563 Жыл бұрын
The great ones always make it look easy.
@cocvhecvАй бұрын
Like he's flipping a newspaper, waiting for the bus.
@matthewac3500 Жыл бұрын
The laugh at the end of each explanation is awesome
@samueljones83829 ай бұрын
Sure is
@TheMisterGriswold4 күн бұрын
Damn!
@chrisfournier614411 ай бұрын
Wow. Clyde is an absolute Monster!
@johnbolongo99787 ай бұрын
Dudes like this who naturally got the groove make it sound so frikkin good.
@stephensneddon1059 Жыл бұрын
Amazing how that one thing in life, can change an era .....amazing riff...what a drummer👍🏻
@mizrelmizrelАй бұрын
Keep Respect on his name. Rip Sir we've Always loved you 🕊️🕊️🎶🎶🥁🥁🥁
@mikeparker77093 ай бұрын
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
@christophmeirich59284 ай бұрын
Chapeau. 😊
@akmalaslam31677 ай бұрын
Love his laugh ❤
@terryf51313 ай бұрын
Wow!! This rewires your brain come practice time....those ghost notes...thanks for posting...we enjoyed this...gold!!😀
@merlinoner Жыл бұрын
LOVE IT ! I love how he laughs at it each time :)
@ifeyecould Жыл бұрын
The end was crazy! Loved it!
@christianmeier99939 ай бұрын
Clyde have some heavy skillz 😮
@bobblues1158 Жыл бұрын
Played with and recorded with him on the road. Great! Good guy to road with!
@davidmolnar825110 ай бұрын
I'm a bassist who would've totally lost it with Clyde playing!
@maxsweet300010 ай бұрын
It is good to give him his flowers.
@vaughnmiller4371 Жыл бұрын
THE ONE.🥁💯🔥 CLYDE "THE GLIDE" STUBBLEFIELD.
@DMF11 Жыл бұрын
Best Drummer in the world 🥁🌍
@drummer4hire24 Жыл бұрын
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.
@davidlewis8814 Жыл бұрын
It makes one dance like James Brown, it explains everything!
@marcosperydrummer Жыл бұрын
Number One Forever 🎶👊💥🥁❤
@Canyon20237 ай бұрын
Masterful so cool!!!
@Leftyone78 Жыл бұрын
Ladies and gentlemen, this is how Hip-Hop was born!
@Flashback_Jack9 ай бұрын
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.
@itslikeajungle9 ай бұрын
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!
@Flashback_Jack9 ай бұрын
@@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.
@jasonhuttermusic424 Жыл бұрын
one of ten best.
@119811985 ай бұрын
What a likeable man😊
@VettsClass Жыл бұрын
Genius brotha 🥁🥁🥁🔥🔥🔥🙌🏿✨
@Adrian_3006 Жыл бұрын
Ginger Baker talked about drummers who had "swing"!? Clyde had it in spades!! So darned impressive 👍😎👍
11 ай бұрын
Pure genius
@intense6 Жыл бұрын
Legend
@ИгорьИванов-к7д9 ай бұрын
Yes Yes!! Thanks 4 Break
@wobblertv80838 ай бұрын
Genius !
@diogenes25507 ай бұрын
Great video.
@KohldOneFilm4 ай бұрын
Clyde, you knew my Good friend Pierre Holden, Producer & Trombonist, what's Good Stubb,...
@maxistrange9 ай бұрын
4:23 YEAH
@davidmcleandamrecordings367310 ай бұрын
Nothing to it.. just this this and this.. and all the sudden ... magic
@DJ_Katone10 ай бұрын
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@robertoricci33934 ай бұрын
1:06 At 1,5 speed it's totally drum & bass. This man was definitely a pioneer.
@PearlOfTheQuarter233 ай бұрын
it’s where the funk shodld be
@78kbsc Жыл бұрын
Interestingly, here Clyde forgets the main signature of the funky drummer break. The open hi-hat...
@Wally-H8 ай бұрын
And he doesn't play the double bass kick either.
@justindawson5930 Жыл бұрын
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
@Wally-H8 ай бұрын
Yup, it all went in Brown's pocket. That is why he refused to play it correctly until the day he died.
@mohddalibinzali11656 ай бұрын
Justin, u mean he played worse in that album?
@justindawson59306 ай бұрын
@@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
@novakattila8 ай бұрын
He makes those drums sound like a million bucks
@swaggertude Жыл бұрын
POV: You're looking for a spiderman 2 comment.
@jerrodkilla23 Жыл бұрын
Never heard of this legend before that mission in Spider-Man 2, but I’m definitely familiar with his work.
@SuperUnhappyman Жыл бұрын
and they say video games arent educational...
@ruffoprime1282 Жыл бұрын
cold sweat was in spiderman 2?
@slatt_lvlup Жыл бұрын
the funky drummer dont close the harlem center
@Yavniell Жыл бұрын
Wow lol
@Harlemworldboy9 ай бұрын
How Hip Hop beats were created.
@keithmoonisalive11 ай бұрын
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.
@aaronbrown0417 Жыл бұрын
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
@SimplicityForGoodАй бұрын
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! :))
@tomlehr8614 ай бұрын
Snare is nice
@PalmerSilis-o9o5 ай бұрын
Alford Summit
@nealbaker41707 ай бұрын
Pee Wee Ellis credits Miles Davis' So What as the origin of Cold Sweat
@SENATAH Жыл бұрын
ayye 4:44 I C U
@torau6665 ай бұрын
It's called the fatback
@NellieGarfield-t3x4 ай бұрын
Easter Corners
@mohddalibinzali11656 ай бұрын
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?
@peterstone25972 ай бұрын
bass too in front at the beginning, right?
@tonysmith58782 ай бұрын
GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME....ONLY IF IT'S FUNKEE!!!!!!
@EvelynJohns-k6e5 ай бұрын
Amie Corners
@CharlesClement-o7n5 ай бұрын
Carter Orchard
@popcycles3 ай бұрын
whats cold sweat time signature jn this video? Doesn't sound 4/4
@Wally-H8 ай бұрын
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).
@lukealberti5094 Жыл бұрын
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.
@B4NDllKOOT_ Жыл бұрын
That snare def gotta be higher tuned as well 😅 but oh well what can you do mate
@f1david Жыл бұрын
I’m not a drummer but it sounded a little different than a video I watched from around 1970. He’s still awesome.
@MortonLuvz2drum Жыл бұрын
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.
@gomey7011 ай бұрын
it still got the funk.
@Wally-H8 ай бұрын
he also missed out the double bass kick.
@Robotron2084psn3 ай бұрын
Sounds like ODB
@DaleA.Darlington5 ай бұрын
He sounds like Rick James.
@gennadiyporyes44718 күн бұрын
Looks like almost every hit is a rimshot?
@Andreaswahllof9 ай бұрын
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
@Wally-H8 ай бұрын
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.
@SleepyheadzMusic2 ай бұрын
John Bonham is number one. Clyde is number two for different reasons. Then Dave Grohl. Easily my 1 2 3.