King Crimson - Heartbeat (The Noise - Live At Fréjus 1982)
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2023
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I remember struggling with this lovely song when we were recording it in London for the ‘Beat’ album. It’s a medium-slow tempo rock song, not a note of funk in it. I’d hardly ever played such a thing in my life. No oddities, cracks or corners, around which I could construct some odd beat. It’s 4/4 with a backbeat.
When you get lost and can’t think of a thing to play, go to the bass line. Happily our ever-resourceful bassist Tony Levin had been here before with a hundred different artists, so it took him about five minutes to construct the right part. I’d been over-thinking it. All it needed was a snare hit on strategic ‘3 ands’ which seemed to neatly clip the bass movement, causing the music to check or ‘skip a beat’, something hearts do all the time. First time it crops up is onwards from 0’52”. Easy solution, hiding in plain sight. Tony was my teacher that day, although he probably didn’t know it.
One of the most astonishing developments in the drummer’s world is online teaching. I mean that in the broadest sense: every drummer can now see and hear whatever any other drummer chooses to put up online, whether it is framed as formal instruction with a regular curriculum, of-the-cuff advice, occasional videos, or shorts of some guy in his bedroom doing something frightening at warp speed. A shortage of ‘what can be done’ on the instrument, there is not.
There is a shortage of information, though, on ‘when to do it’ (answer: almost never) and ‘Why would you wasn’t to do it’ (answer: for no good reason anyone can think of). How often do you hear demolition drum-shredding live on stage? Not too often. Not everyone wants to be faced with a drummer going super-fast at one dynamic.
Far more useful than speed is the ability to shape a phrase dynamically. Pick a nice figure or phrase that you’re comfortable with, no more than a bar or two duration. Try going, for example, from very quiet to very loud to very quiet, over the length of the phrase. Repeat. Then play the same phrase over different instruments. That’s give you timbral variety. Repeat, but now with the dynamic changes thrown in. Now your original phrase has shape: it’s changing on both dynamic and timbral levels. Your drumming has become not only about 200% more interesting, but also is of more use to anyone you might be playing with.
It's not easy offering tips by text without a kit or audio, plus there are plenty of non-drummers reading this, so I don’t want to bore the pants off them. Nevertheless, the top guys on any instrument all appear to have infinite dynamic and timbral vocabularies. The people running auditions for interesting originals bands usually want to know what you can bring to the table. They may not say it specifically, but they want to hear your expressive potential through use of dynamics and timbral variation. They almost never want to hear how fast you can do it.
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Bill's applied dialog in the description is a timeless lesson that is always apt to nearly all situations one will ever encounter.
His description add a whole new depth on the insight on what he was and is thinking. It’s the greatest thing the internet has to offer.
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Such an extremely creative composition of unique and skilled musicians is far too rare! As a drummer I'm very inspired by Bill Bruford, but also this whole amazing band is really inspiring.
One of my all time favourite songs ever made. While not strictly sounding like a King Crimson song, you can tell from the feeling you get listening to it that the most talented musicians of all time created this masterpiece. Thanks Bill
As usual Bill's exceptional with King Crimson. Nothing but!
Phenomenal sound wonderful vocals 🙌 i really loved the Beat, discipline and Three of a perfect pair era brings back great memories I'll never forget seeing Three of a perfect pair tour in the Queen Elizabeth Theater Vancouver BC 👌👏
This incarnation of KC and tours left such an impression on me. I remember sitting in the audience realizing for myself how transcendent it was. This song is so special for many reasons. It gave me hope for the future back then. While I’m older and I suppose more jaded than I was then, I also can’t deny how hopeless the world is today.
Thanks Bill for this bit of the past and love the description. As a guitar player learning about the art of rhythm, percussion and drums is always appreciated.
My favourite song on Beat without question
This is the best era of the KC for me. Also love this song, but like the version recorded in the AB's solo album a lot better.
I love this song. Even now it seems like an object that fell to earth like a shooting star - strange, wonderful and ancient.
Yeah, the question of when to play and why isn't asked nearly enough. When Neil Peart released his first video in the 90s, a couple of my drummer friends said "the drumming's great, but there's too much talking!" I was taken aback by this, because I thought the talky bits were what made the video so good! Showing what was played and how it was played is useless without discussing *why* it was played.
Beautiful song!
Bill - always a fan of your time on the throne in whatever musical masterwork you participated. What I find amazing is that when I was a lad (mid 20s) I heard Adrien play Heartbeat on his solo album Young Lions and I was just gobsmacked. I was entranced at the guitar voicing, rhythms and composition. It was only a few years ago that I discovered that he recorded this with King Crimson previous.
I don't know why but that moment when Bill starts playing the snare drum is ALWAYS a tone running through my body and tickles my soul....!! there are thousands of drummers using the supraphonic (including myself), but its HIS tone.....
Great memories...... Great band.
Saw kc on the thrak tour
This song always reminds me of a girl I met in fell in love with in 1982. We lost contact over the years (live many states away) but reconnected in 2020. We still keep in touch but just like this song, it’s incomplete. 😢
Great commentary on the drum part; I never thought too much about the drums in this song before.
Légendes ces musiciens là ! Superbe !
Looks like you are playing an early version of 'The Beast'! You are absolutely one of my favorite drummers of all time! E. Doc Smith agrees.
I've played this song along with other songs from this era of KC, and this song always makes the girls want to slow dance.
Thank you for the advice in the description!
Great video.
Keith Moon passed away in ‘78 while KC was on hiatus, by the early ‘80’s BB was & is the greatest living rock drummer.
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Is that film?? Everyone was using videotape but that sure looks like film to me. Interesting....
Definitely on film. The colors are a giveaway. If this was from videotape it would look grainy because of the lighting (or rather the lack of it) and have disturbance bands all over it.
Def film and 35mm to boot...
Looks like a 3 camera shoot, Long Master Static shot, Roving Side medium shot and Roving Close-up.
I fought video for so long but couldn't compete cost wise. ...We learned how to shoot video and make it look as close to film as possible using great lighting, matte boz and Tiffen filters... All the tricks but what u see is is what u get with video/digital....film you best know what you're doing.
As always, your comments entertain and enlighten (and I'm not a drummer by any stretch).
1:10 look at Fripp's reaction when he gets photographed
If Asia had covered this, it would have been a worldwide hit.
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You might be on to something, John Wetton on vocals?
John Wetton was who I thought of first.
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Give AI a few years
I kinda doubt it would be a hit now.
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greatness