Bruford-Borstlap: Mister B.B. (Bruford-Borstlap: In Concert In Holland, 2004)
286 beats per minute is not a tempo I visit regularly, so this piece could as well have been called “by the seat of your pants”. One of the key things when you’re playing fast is to give the impression that there’s no rush, or better still, to actually be in no rush. I try not to let the sticks run away with me, which as you can hear I signally failed to do on this outing. I haven’t got fast tempi down, yet. It’s something to do with fewer notes per measure; taking things out. This music starts well from my point of view, with just hat and kick, and thus space, even at high velocity. But then it gets busier..!
As regular subscribers here will know, sound and image quality on the clips on my Channel can vary, from a compressed smart-phone somewhere in the back of a club to high-quality, well-produced King Crimson or ABWH. I’m not in control of this and I understand some are unable to get past the sound quality to the music. For those people, the sound quality IS the music. I come from an older gener
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Bruford-Borstlap: Mister B.B. (Bruford-Borstlap: In Concert In Holland, 2004)