Have you ever wondered what drum beat is the most famous in the world? I was definitely curious, so I did some research and found that the “Funky Drummer” beat by Clyde Stubblefield has been the most sampled drum groove ever (over 7. Here's the sheet music (or click here to download the PDF). THE FUNKY DRUMMER. Title: SuccessfulDrumming - lesson-template.indd Created Date: 8:33:25 AM.

A list of songs that sample from James Brown 'The Funky Funkiest Drummer Of All Time,' Questlove on Saturday. 'Clyde Stubblefield thank you for everything you've taught me. The spirit of the greatest grace note left hand snare drummer will live on thru all of us.' Stubblefield, while a member of Brown's backing unit, performed on the funk legend's classic cuts like 'Cold Sweat,' 'Ain't It Funky Now,' 'I Got the Feelin' and Brown's landmark LP Cold Sweat and Sex Machine. However, it's a 20-second drum break, a snippet of a Stubblefield solo found on Brown's 1970 single for 'Funky Drummer,' that marked the drummer's biggest impact on music.

The drum break served as the backbeat for countless hip-hop tracks, ranging from Public Enemy's 'Fight the Power,' 'Bring the Noise' and 'Rebel Without a Pause' to N.W.A's 'Fuck tha Police' and Dr. Dre's 'Let Me Ride' to LL Cool J's 'Mama Said Knock You Out,' Run-D.M.C.' S 'Run's House' and Beastie Boys' 'Shadrach.'

Even Ed Sheeran's 'Shirtsleeves' and George Michael's 'Freedom '90' were to sample Stubblefield's beat. 'We were sitting up in the studio, getting ready for a session, and I guess when I got set up I just started playing a pattern. Started playing something,' Stubblefield said of creating the famous drum break. 'The bassline came in and the guitar came in and we just had a rhythm going, and if Brown liked it, I just said, 'Well, I'll put something with it.' ' Stubblefield was not listed as a songwriter on the track and therefore didn't see much royalties from the decades of sampling. 'All the drum patterns I played with Brown was my own; he never told me how to play or what to play,' Stubblefield in 2012. 'I just played my own patterns, and the hip-hoppers and whatever, the people that used the material probably paid him, maybe.

But we got nothing. I got none of it. Download Boardmaker V6 Crack Cocaine. It was all my drum product.' Stubblefield added in, 'People use my drum patterns on a lot of these songs. They never gave me credit, never paid me. It didn't bug me or disturb me, but I think it’s disrespectful not to pay people for what they use.' Born in Chattanooga in 1943, Stubblefield served as a session musician and toured under Otis Redding before becoming Brown's drummer from 1965 to 1971.