All of this mileage from that original recording, and the creator probably died forgotten and penniless. Hell, there was no mention of his name in this video celebrating his contribution to history.

@frexion8374

2 жыл бұрын

You are more right than you think. Gregory C Coleman was homeless when he died in 2006

@nebroskitheraut6705

2 жыл бұрын

@@frexion8374 too bad.

@zacharyberns8745

2 жыл бұрын

For real. @artofdrumming shame on yall. Show some respect. Music happens from people not in a vacuum. Respect the creators

@NikFowler

2 жыл бұрын

@@frexion8374 Although there was a campaign to raise money for him posthumously. Not enough, I know, but still.

@0e0

2 жыл бұрын

actually a huge community of people in the jungle scene raised money for the band recently

You absolutely nailed the tone and feel, it sounds almost exactly like the original. I actually think it sounds better since the recording is crisper.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 🙏☺️

@filtafacta

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. If I am picky I am hearing little too much room on the remake. Could be as a result of the extra clarity of the newer recording? Maybe just add some fluff with some saturation/tape/distortion plugins? Either way, stunning recreation!

@PulseCodeMusic

Жыл бұрын

Well... its much cleaner. So in my view no where near as good haha

@PulseCodeMusic

Жыл бұрын

To be fair the tone of the drums is pretty good just need all what noise and saturation to get it bang on

Thanx, man. People always forget about the sound of the amen break in their tutorials. But it's so essential to this icon drumloop.

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

So cool that you did the original and the sped up dnb versions! Both are cool in their own ways

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

Second set up nailed it. Brought back memories of Luke Vibert's Drum n' Bass for Papa (released under the name Plug), by far the best DnB album I've ever heard and a must-hear imo.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

Waw ! It sounds very similar to the amen break ! 😃

YOU CANT SEE CALIFORNIA WITHOUT MARLIN BRANDO EYES

@tomaspiso

2 жыл бұрын

IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD!!!

@user-ug9cs4uk1q

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomaspiso it's all in my head

@jonathandrolet9849

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

@huiki7048

2 жыл бұрын

Why can you comment audio lol

@iii978

2 жыл бұрын

Jesus.. I thought he was Marlon not Marlin

heard this in some great breakcore tracks, and honestly its just amazing You absolutely nailed it. The tuning was on point for both versions

I used this in a lot of my songs, it is such a catchy drum rhythm.

Drumming: the very definition of multitasking.

Outstanding work. I can't believe I'm just discovering this channel for the first time today. It's a gold mine!

This video just made my day. amazing! What a great explanation. I will never get tired of this break it will live on forever.

There. Straight from the source. Rodney Mills, who was the engineer: "...Amen, Brother was recorded to an Ampex 440 1/2 inch 4track tape recorder. Bass & Drums were on 1 track, Horns were overdubbed to a separate trk, instruments(Guitar, Organ) were on aseparate trks. I'm pretty sure I would have used all 4 tracks. Tape machine was set to 15ips(inches per second)speed. Mixing whould have gone to an Ampex Mono machine for radio and an Ampex stereo machine for single sales to the public. The producer was Don Carroll, who was a record promotion man for major labels before he took up producing. Don definitely wanted feedback from everyone before he made final decisions on things. Emory Gordy was instrumental with arrangements and lending a helping hand to Don.The Publisher for both sides was Johnny Bee-"Holly Music" named after his daughter. Johnny also managed the band I played in throughout the 60's called "The Bushmen" Recording was done at LeFevre Sound in Atlanta GA, 1969. The studio was a pretty live recording environment so it was a little tricky to get good presence on the drums without other instruments leaking onto the drum tracks or drums bleeding on other instrument tracks. Microphones used on the drums would have been a Neumann U87 on overheads (we had recently switched from the Telefunken 47's to get the latest Neumann mikes), an Altec 633 on Kick drum, an RCA Bk-5 on snare(a ribbon mike that could handle loud volume). At that time we had very few dynamic microphones. Bass would have been direct(no amp)The console was a custom 4 channel(Buss) console that had Langevin equalizers, Gotham audio faders, and no panning control. Stereo was still young at that time. I had been hired as engineer in 1968 and quit the band I had played in for 7 1/2 years to devote myself full time to develop engineering skills(if I had any!)..." m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1662341287205013&id=352202654885556&sfnsn=mo

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for sharing this!

@viktorvigh4513

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArtOfDrumming You're very welcome. There was a documentary about it on Dogs On Acid forum back in 2001 but that was since deleted. I've found his post by accident, while I was doing some research.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Well glad you found this and thanks for doing the research

Very cool video. I always liked that beat and wondered where it came from. Sounds great! You guys really inspired me to do my own drum videos. Thank you very much for the great content.

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your feedback and great to hear that you are getting into creating your own videos! Keep it up and have fun filming yourself 🥳

My first introduction to the Amen break was Akuma's theme from Street Fighter: Third Strike.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

😂 true

@carterbohn4005

2 жыл бұрын

mine had to be your best nightmare from undertale. i knew *of* the sample, just not it’s origins/name

This is very informative and sounds amazing!!

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot 🙌🏻

Great! Good balance of tech and playing! Thanks for this.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your feedback 🙏

Very well achieved sound! Congrats!!

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏 Pablo!

Ahhh the essence of break core and D&B

Will sample this for sure!

Great video, nailed the sound and the feel was on point.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

As always, superb work guys

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

awesome video great drummer and sound

Best rendition I've heard. Most don't even try to get the correct drum sounds.

Man you NAILED those Drumkits!! That was some tight drumming especially on the smaller kit HOTT DAMN!!

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brian!

There are definitely two cymbals on the right in the original: a ride and crash which were mentioned in the video. They're next to each other and are in two separate--but close--places in the stereo field. That's if you want to be even closer of course.

Omg i love the kick sound so much

Excellent

Unbelievable drumming and tuning. Really perfect sound!

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

@theunbanned4553

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArtOfDrumming Thank you a lot! I learned so much in the courses on your website! Great stuff over there and really user-friendly with a good layout and interface!

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for mentioning that. We really do care about the user interface of pur website. Cool that this is recognized 😎

This break was one of the first beats I learned.

100. Amazing work.

Dude this page is awesome, subscribed!

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Great, welcome to our channel

Sending you great greetings from Singapore 🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬!

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏 blessings back to Singapore 🇸🇬!

This Pearl picollo 13x3 brass snare is dope even tuned low. Excellent recreation guys you nailed it. The analog distortion along the recording/pressing chain is missing and it shows how good it may have sounded in the room before deterioration. Amen!

espectacular video, congratulation very tecnical thanks

Great drumming and tuning!!!

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏 Michael!

I always thought that ride cymbal crash was actually a splash on the hi hat. This video proved me entirely wrong. Well freaking done!

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 🙏

very cool remake 👍

3rd Bass-Words Of Wisdom Salt N Pepa- I desire NWA- Straight Outta Compton

Best I've heard yet!

I know people been getting their samplers out on this vid for a bit over a month now. Thanks for making this video!

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

fantastic video! have used this break in about 70% of my tunes. but to see it done live is really cool. your hats sound spot on like the original. as an old skool junglist I was very impresseed with this video. really well made, edited, and shot well. i might sample your break now, it's better than original.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

😀🙌

Great work. Love this video. I have been mixing since the early 90s and always loved the amen break. It doesn't sound like real drums. When I heard the original song, I was stunned. But this does sound like areal drums. Must be the recording of the original that gives it that sound.

@dj_adam_g_uk

Жыл бұрын

I've tried all different plugins on it to get it more accurate, saturation/tape emulation/compression ect and chopped the best parts, when I slow it down a few octaves it sounds just like it but at dnb tempo it still hasn't quite got that unreal drum sound but its really good to layer with kicks n snares

This is fantastic. Do you have any high res audio files for this that I could download please?

This is amazing! Any chance you could share the drum recording for us to sample and keep the cycle going? :)

Great videos! Congrats

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏 MrJireh09 for your feedback!

What a Break!

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

💯

Amazing drum sound

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Felipe!

You play that beautifully.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

☺️

Obviously a lot of people commenting haven't heard a lot of James Brown tracks featuring Stubblefield and Starks from the mid 60s.

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

🙏

@somnaut

2 жыл бұрын

Clyde was on *fire* at this time. Used to go hear him in a local blues band in the 90s, he was still smoking!!!

Such a satisfying video! 👍🏼

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed 😉

@EDDBUD

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArtOfDrumming You have the sound so close. 😊

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

We are trying our best.

Niice! I like the sound very much!

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏 Daniel!

Very helpful video!

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

first time I noticed this beat was on "The Mad Capsule Markets - Pulse"

I absolutely love your first ride cymbal, it’s similar in sound to my 21” Sabian Manhattan Jazz

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is actually one we use quite often: 19“ Kerope

@pandahammonds9590

2 жыл бұрын

the fact that you pronounced it “Keropee” drives me bonkers though.

That’s one helluva foot you’ve got there, mr. Drummer.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏 peter!

This beat is fucking magic! Nice video, bro, saludo from Russia 😊

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Amen brother 👊🏻

Sounds great🖤

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

🙏

Eyeless by Slipknot is the one that I can easily recognize

The Amen Break from Björk's Crystalline is so cool!

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

God I miss playing drums. You nailed the sound

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Tom 🙏!

Time to sample this amen break

@persona83

3 ай бұрын

Damn I thought only me had this idea. 😔🤣

You've missed out one of the most important aspects of the Amen break....the way it sounds. The break itself is a fairly typical funk pattern, but played at pace. The reason it was used so much isn't just the pattern, but the fact that the break is played tight as fuck and sounds great. The compression, E.Q. and miking (all recorded to analogue tape) are what makes the break so good - which is why your rendition is accurate in terms of the actual drum pattern, but doesn't 'sound' like the original. Cool video though! You should check out Jungle Drummer for some live Jungle / DnB drumming too!

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@kwaddamage8286

2 жыл бұрын

i agree its not identical, but in fairness ArtofDrumming spent more than half of the video explaining how they chose drums and mic'ing to recreate it as accurately as possible. you are making it sound like they just played the pattern on any old drum set. they did make the effort to do exactly what you are saying

I came her after watching the last show of fashion designer Virgil Abloh, who was also involved in music and named his show “Amen break “ as a tribute to the original creators but also as a way to demonstrate, very effectively btw, how artistic inspiration and “ ownership “ of ideas has always been nearly impossible to pin down, as in fact , the creative process , especially regarding inspiration, has plenty to do with “ appropriating “ an idea or sound you like and making it your own , or having it have your personal signature by transforming it slightly into how YOU would have created it , sometimes turning it into something very different . Thus blurring the lines of what is “ copying “ ( taking someone else’s idea and using it without adding or substracting anything that would “transform “ it into something uniquely yours ) and “inspiration”( taking an idea and , in your view , making it better or different and unique. I remember being a child and always hearing how famous American mobile sculpture Alexander Calder , legend has it , first came up with the idea of his mobiles while , supposedly, watching a painting by Piet Mondrian , the famous colorist abstract painter ) and saying to himself: “ this would be so much cooler if the colors could move” and then when on to create floating panels of color that moved in his mobiles …. Very interesting video . Congrats !

@boxavoided

Жыл бұрын

Clearly Virgil learned this from Kanye.

I love drums and bass

That snare sound sounds crispy and fresh

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@keithmoon3190

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtOfDrumming lol amen sign and the song is called amen brother

haha that's awesome! Do you know of any electronic drum modules that will synthesize these (I'm particularly interested in the Jungle tuned kit)? I say synthesized because I don't want to use samples (in order to get that real, acoustic feel).

It’s worth noting that when the break was used in hip hop, the record was played at 33 1/3 instead of 45, which sounded much slower.

awesome!!

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

Nice!

You should make a sample pack with all the individual hits, that would be next levels...

Awesome vid, great attention to detail. But one question regarding the pitch of the original - to me it sounds an octave or two lower? Perhaps down to the RPM of which the vinyl was pressed or tempo played back.., perhaps even the vinyl material used? I honestly have never heard a true 100% acoustic replication of the original break..

Would really love a lossless download of your recordings here! Please share the love!

I remember this from The Prodigy’s “Firestarter.” Brilliant playing. Thank you.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Thank You!

@HonkletonDonkleton

2 жыл бұрын

hi i don't mean to sound pedantic but the amen break is not used in firestarter. to my knowledge the only track on fat of the land that uses the amen break is minefields. the main break in firestarter came from a sample cd that was popular at the time but i forget the name

@HonkletonDonkleton

2 жыл бұрын

search youtube for 'Making Of “The Prodigy's Firestarter“ by Jim Pavloff in Ableton Live'

@breakfreak3181

2 жыл бұрын

@@HonkletonDonkleton Yup, no Amen at all in Firestarter - in fact, off the top of my head, I can't think of any Prodigy tracks that use the Amen break (early albums - I didn't really listen to the last 2 albums!)

@HonkletonDonkleton

2 жыл бұрын

@@breakfreak3181 it's in minefields defo. I was sad enough to check after posting the above 😂 it's mixed in behind the main break during the really heavy sections

Gregory S. "G.C." Coleman the drummer who played this never gets a mention!!!

i think any drummer should check out breakcore! that genre of sampled drums is seriously fun to chew on. Frictional Nevada by Venetian Snares and o'er the flood by goreshit are amazing

@Scyber_Official

2 жыл бұрын

Doormouse!

@shep6964

Жыл бұрын

The downside of Frictional Nevada is that the best part doesn't last at all tbh

@canter1ter

Жыл бұрын

"I think any chef should check out their meals being put in a meat grinder while someone is moaning in the background"

Up next; Dominic Howard's uprising drum sound from Muse!

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Love his sound too. Thanks for the request.

Great !!!

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nevo!

@davidarielmendozavaldivia

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtOfDrumming big up!

Oooooo, what if this video were marked with a Creative Commons license so we could all sample it? Or if there were a link to buy a sample pack?

Holy shit, fucking perfect.

the 19inch cymbal is amazing what a great choice. Do you know the weight?

What you can't recreate unfortunately are the mic's from that time and most importantly - the amps for the mics and the tape where the whole thing was recorded on. And apparently these make the whole Amen sound complete. The Amen break is epic. It gave birth to multiple music genres which helped the mankind to go completely nuts and taught us all a lesson in keeping it simple, analogue and funky.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

When the break is sampled in Jungle, or more latterly dnb, it's not 'sped up'. The sample audio is chopped into it's constituent hits, and then using the gaps between those, and MIDI sequencing, triggered at a higher tempo, also known as quantizing (ish). If the record you are listening to is also pitched up, it's because the producer did exactly that - pitched it up, which all samplers can also do. It's not just because the turntables are on +8 pitch.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

@NikFowler

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArtOfDrumming The 'chopping' is also how you get all the crazy patterns in Jungle too. Once chopped, you can arrange the hits any way you want!

@dj_adam_g_uk

2 жыл бұрын

Its sped up, then chopped

@Arc.hitectureMusic

Жыл бұрын

Definitely sped up then chopped. The amen chopped and not pitched up sounds quite different.

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON!!!

And now i will sample this video

That's pretty f*ing close!

And you are using the pedal of the dnb acoustic hero jojo mayer! 👍

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

The one and only - playing feel of this pedal is super cool.

Anything on Deep Jungle records will give you your Amen fix

That acro 👌

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Acro!

Knew it was an Acrolite! Knew it!

would it be ok if i sample the audio of the recreation of the amen break in this video? i will give credit if yes.

@ArtOfDrumming

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody will keep you back especially not us. Credit is mandatory though

@CG64Mushro0m

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtOfDrumming alright

Do you describe the sticks you use, at least the tip material/type?

Whaaa! Please tell me you recorded individual hits and are selling them.

Cool video, but wow, dat Lego figure haircut @ 2:37 🤣

What head did you use for a snare side?

Just listen to James Browns drummers and Zig from the Meters. There are hundreds of others, but that's a great place to start.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

Recreating james brown is coming soon

Its always amazed me how much it sounds like a jazz drummer doing a half gogo beat tripping over, then catching it self. Is that what it is?

Fun fact: you can play the amen break at the beginning of Heavy Dirty Soul by 21 pilots. But I hope you will cover it with the same kit and one Low Tom.

Would there be any chance of getting a high-quality audio version of these recordings? Or is that a copyright issue? It would be free and not for commercial use, which I imagine helps.

@ArtOfDrumming

2 жыл бұрын

please send me an email to florian@onlinelessons.tv

Drum n bass is THE best genre no one can tell me otherwise