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The hi-hat is an instrument within the kit that is often the driving force of numerous grooves, and how the playing of this instrument has developed across the period 1960-1974 in Anglo-American popular musics is a useful guide to consider how the drum kit has in turn defined certain genres and styles. This paper will consider a selection of grooves that use the hi-hat as a discriminating factor that will help trace the origin of certain basics within straight rhythms. The first iteration of these grooves are traced and analysed to uncover the origin of particular patterns that have since become accepted and well used within popular musics. This date period is a particularly rich seam of popular music history in this respect, beginning with the earliest recorded examples of particular hi-hat techniques to what could be considered a period where these techniques became commonplace.
Author(s): Fleet P, Winter J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Popular Music
Year: 2014
Volume: 33
Issue: 2
Pages: 293-314
Print publication date: 08/04/2014
ISSN (print): 0261-1430
ISSN (electronic): 1474-0095
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0261143014000269
DOI: 10.1017/S0261143014000269
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