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"Shout"

From the musical, The Scottsboro Boys, "Shout" has a New Orleans/second-line drum feel. From what I remember, the actual part was half written out/half up to interpretation.
I experimented with playing many different combinations of rhythms, accents, and techniques. 
I eventually came up with this combination, which is incorporated into a 2 bar phrase.  On the first measure, I play an accented rim shot on beat 2, and then a buzz roll on beat 1 of the next measure.  This sort of opened up the part a bit, so it wouldn't sound like a 4/4 march, and it seemed to work real well with 2 bar vocal phrasing as well.​


Recorded live at the Suzanne Roberts Theater, Philadelphia Theater Company, Philadelphia, PA.

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