Research shows we're partial to music we've become familiar with into our adolescence, and I wonder if that extends to rhythms?
I'm a really bad dancer but I'm really responsive to drumbeat patterns. Drum and bass on their own can entertain me. You can play out of tune and I probably won't catch it, but if a drummer misses a beat, it hurts.
My music teacher when I was 12 wanted to expand our horizons, and played us records from other cultures. We hated it. African Highlife, Afrobeat, Cumbia and such seemed like a chore when all we wanted was CCR and the Guess Who. But now, I don't listen to Seventies pop except at banks and malls, and love the complex drumming in seventies African and Latin music. Ten points for the music teacher?
I'm a really bad dancer but I'm really responsive to drumbeat patterns. Drum and bass on their own can entertain me. You can play out of tune and I probably won't catch it, but if a drummer misses a beat, it hurts.
My music teacher when I was 12 wanted to expand our horizons, and played us records from other cultures. We hated it. African Highlife, Afrobeat, Cumbia and such seemed like a chore when all we wanted was CCR and the Guess Who. But now, I don't listen to Seventies pop except at banks and malls, and love the complex drumming in seventies African and Latin music. Ten points for the music teacher?
