Hi-Hat's what I like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ckIovZRwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1gqhU1Mmqs

otm

Another track with Mike Clark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY9rhaYkud0

Don't know exactly what you're referring to anonanon but here's a nice 16th note hihat beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wlz_bKHi9s

ha I knew that was gonna be Palm Grease, beat me to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZLLYEzKE8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPNU9G4zwks

just realized "superstition" has some proto double hand hi hat -- anything earlier than that?

oddly wiki is telling me jeff beck came up with that particular drum beat

I want to see the full doc or whatever that Gadd bit is from

granny, I feel like you can tell when it's played with both hands, sounds different, looser. Palm grease is a good call, seems to fit the bill whereas that Barry White sounds like it's played with one hand, unless I'm imagining it

of course there's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0liXaFvsLc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0liXaFvsLc

(in terms of cool hi-hat I mean, not 16-beat hi-hat)

1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFvRvSxsW-I

just realized "superstition" has some proto double hand hi hat -- anything earlier than that?

oddly wiki is telling me jeff beck came up with that particular drum beat

― anonanon, Monday, June 3, 2013 10:11 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNP8tbDMZNE

oh, sorry not double hand though. But I don't think Superstition is either?

also the drummer on superstition doesn't do four sixteenth notes, it's more of a swing-pattern-over-rock-beat thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvvwGvaGLGY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etwIu8-FlGU

hi-hat is also one of the best ways to tell a low-quality recording

or low-quality mp3 of a recording, rather

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbzaylGzlY

I prefer a dirty sounding hi-hat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4A5JnworAk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMv8ZQ8BL3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBfGfEVIS_M

dubbing the hi-hat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5pnveH_A7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWdj-4-CJ8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4jOWYP8EM

most Chimurenga has a prominent uptempo 16th notes hi-hat beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u4NqiP_Oko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR4jCj4U7Tg

hey there we go, can't play that with one hand

is there some seminal disco song that was first to take two hands to the high hats over four on the floor?

hi-hat is also big in Kenyan benga music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35qqsiTLZrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m_vYGKLTH8

This is 1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_BWNzThJY

And 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT1e2_uTwmI

"Sinnerman" makes me suspect some gospel roots to the hi-hat 16ths, but I can't think of examples off the top of my head.

the feel on sinnerman is different too -- accents on the "ands" instead of on the downbeats.

Yup, it's not a funk groove yet. That's what makes me wonder if it came out of church originally. But I'm just speculating.

I notice these early instances it's generally used more like a engine revving type effect, but someone put a stiff 4/4 kick beneath it and that is the intrepid hi hat pioneer I am searching for

in 1972, the same year as Soul Makossa (sometimes called the "first disco song," which I'm not so sure about), the Fatback Band released this, which has the four-on-the-floor feel but not the 16th notes on the hi-hat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7vKI3I50-E

hey soul makossa itself has what sounds like a mostly double hand hi hat thing going on there. if this is one of the seminal disco records, in line with granny's many youtubes above, disco 16th notes maybe do derive from this afrobeat/afrofunk strand

This is some of the best hi hat action I know of at :45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43rGOqu_QL0

nice Idris up there

this one is early '74 and has a steady two handed hi-hat beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdDALuknybo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZdE4kpr8lU

example of a "steppers" reggae beat, late 70s. hi-hat is a bit more skittery than a straight 16ths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rgS57eymbE

rock your baby is otm, that is one stiff ass two handed hi hat proto disco beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZ_9V37KxA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pcxltHyBqQ

speaking of George McCrae, Gwen McCrae recorded some stuff the same year w/some of the same musicians:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lAkcdyh3iI

so much good music on this thread.
that smokey johnson groove is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKd_XTFhGxo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZLGCAn9ot0

Is that Earl Palmer on the Smokey Johnson track? Incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGYx0hMjM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBW-7uI5ABw

I love african guitar pop where the groove is almost all on the hi-hat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecdUDfUgSK4

the beat I mean