Talk about your favorite drum fills, parts, grooves, etc. here

1) Pharaoh's Dance - the opening groove. I love the way the kick is almost exclusively on the upbeats, and it has such a distinct pitch. And the snare and hi-hat are so light and tasty.

2) Spanish Key - that shit is FONKY and even Diddy noticed

3) Miles Runs the Voodoo Down - I'm always trying to imitate this style - underplaying and rarely hitting more than one surface at once

4) Double Image (from complete BB sessions) - so deceptively simple again, but so great. I love the way the drums, but really the whole band, plays with the beat in a very elastic way.

"His Wife Refused", from David Byrne's The Catherine Wheel; Yogi Horton's playing on this track is not to be believed, especially the fills, which are unlike anything else I've heard.

Well, I have learned to accept that the groove itself was a good one, but the snare sound sounded annoyingly old-fashioned in the early 90s.

the B sections of link wray's "the black widow"

James Brown -- "Funky Drummer"!!!
Well, I have learned to accept that the groove itself was a good one

lol at Geir and at the same time a weird nostalgia for that bullshit

https://youtu.be/wA63cbWk5AI

808 state - flow coma (afx remix)

this track kinda hooked me into aphex twin.. the sticky funk and energised pulse of it. primarily the less cluttered moments of his tracks (where there's more space) are what draw me in, like when the hi-hats are muted (intro, and tail-end) on AFX Acid 04 (analord)

The way Greg Saunier (generally) rears up and readies to pounce on an instant, on various tracks. the first track of Reveille, for example - you can feel his anticipation as the track builds, it's really charged and alive. almost like my friend's dog, when you grab her attention with a tasty morsel (or anything), holding it up above your head and twitching it to suggest the release.. the way she shuffles her weight on her front feet, with eager anticipation. well, not necessarily like a dog. but, you know

*pounce on an instance, or a moment of release

broadcast man is not a bird

funky drum fill mixed with clanging chimes, OK by me

Buddy Saltzman's fills on the Four Seasons' "Dawn (Go Away)". on "Rag Doll" too but "Dawn" is where it's at

Gary Young's beat underneath the chorus of "Loretta's Scars".

I absolutely love Bonzo's drumming, fills, timing on "Out On The Tiles" atm

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(oh, wait, not the chorus -- the "From now on, I can see the sun..." part)

"Out on the Tiles" dominates in so many ways... it's redunkulous

Steve Smith does a really cool across his kick drum and floor tom before the second chorus starts on Journey's "Separate Ways". I've tried to get a couple drummers to steal it but with no luck so far.

It's this one...

https://youtu.be/LatorN4P9aA?t=146

The Meters "Look-A Py Py." Even if Leo, George, and Art weren't contributing their equally essential parts, I could listen to Zigaboo's drum groove as a solo on repeat.

really cool roll...across his kick and floor tom.

Man is not a bird by broadcast