Investigating the origins of contemporary basics on the drum kit

An exploration of the role of the hi-hat in Anglo-American popular musics from 1960 until 1974

Bibliographic Data

ID4304086
AuthorsPaul Fleet (0000-0003-3692-9623, Newcastle University), Jonathon Winter (Newcastle University)
Year2014
Volume33
Issue2
Pages293-314
Publication date2014-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopular Music (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261143014000269
OpenAlexW2103603639
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited3

The hi-hat is an instrument within the kit that is often the driving force of numerous grooves, and how the playing of this instrument developed across the period 1960-1974 in Anglo-American popular musics is a useful guide when considering how the drum kit has in turn defined certain genres and styles. This paper will study a selection of grooves that use the hi-hat as a discriminating factor which will help trace the origin of certain basics within straight rhythms. The first iterations of these grooves are traced and analysed to uncover the origin of particular patterns that have since become accepted and well used within popular musics. This date period is a particularly rich seam of popular music history in this respect, beginning with the earliest recorded examples of particular hi-hat techniques and leading to what could be considered a period where these techniques became commonplace

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Drum · Linguistics · Literature · Period (music · Popular music · Selection (genetic algorithm · Visual arts · Computer Science · History · Music History and Culture · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence

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