新SAT必读演讲：Clayton Cameron: The math behind the beats

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　　新SAT今日名人

　　Clayton Cameron

　　A pioneer in brush technique, drummer Clayton Cameron has toured with Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett and jazz legend Kenny Burrell.

　　Why you should listen

　　Clayton Cameron holds a unique title: Brush Master. That's because this percussionist prefers brushes to sticks, and has spent his career perfecting the art of brush technique. Cameron grew up in Los Angeles and started drumming at a young age on empty oatmeal boxes. After college, he moved to Las Vegas, where he was hired as the drummer for Sammy Davis Jr.'s big band. "It would be Sammy's tap dancing night after night that would inspire my brush playing," says Cameron.

　　During his tenure with Sammy Davis Jr., Cameron played with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. And, after moving to New York, he struck up a longterm friendship with Tony Bennett, and spent 15 years touring with the master. Cameron recorded 15 albums with Bennett, including his Grammy-winning Tony Bennett Unplugged.

　　Cameron has also worked with jazz legend Kenny Burrell, who encouraged him to teach at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music. In addition, Cameron released his debut album in 2012, Here's to the Messengers: Tribute to Art Blakey, and formed his own group, Jazz eXplosion. Cameron has also released several DVDs over the years as well as a book, Brushworks.

　　新SAT必读演讲英文字幕

　　00:11

　　How many of you love rhythm? Oh yeah, oh yeah. Oh yeah. (Cheers)

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　　(Drumming)

　　00:26

　　I mean, I love all kinds of rhythm. I like to play jazz, a little funk, and hip hop, a little pop, a little R&B, a little Latin, African. And this groove right here, comes from the Crescent City, the old second line. (Cheers)

　　01:24

　　Now, one thing all those rhythms have in common is math, and I call it a-rhythm-etic. Can you repeat after me? A-rhythm-etic. Audience: A-rhythm-etic.

　　01:39

　　Clayton Cameron: A-rhythm-etic. Audience: A-rhythm-etic.

　　01:41

　　CC: A-rhythm a-rhythm. Audience: A-rhythm a-rhythm.

　　01:43

　　CC: A-rhythm-etic. Audience: A-rhythm-etic.

　　01:45

　　CC: Yeah. Now all those styles of rhythm are all counted in four and then subdivided by three.What? Yeah. Three is a magic number. Three is a groovin' number. Three is a hip-hop kind of number. But what does subdividing by three mean? And counting off by four? Well, look, think of it this way. A measure of music as a dollar. Now a dollar has four quarters, right? And so does a 4/4 measure of music. It has four quarter notes.

　　02:37

　　Now, how do you subdivide? Now let's envision this: three dollars' worth of quarters. You would have three groups of four, and you would count it, a-one-two-three-four, one-two-three-four, one-two-three-four. Together.

　　02:57

　　All: A-one-two-three-four, one-two-three-four, one-two-three-four.

　　03:00

　　CC: Okay, now you feel that? Now let's take those three groups of four and make them four groups of three. And listen to this. A-one-two-three-four, one-two-three-four, one-two-three-four, with me.One-two-three-four, one-two-three, come on, y'all!

　　03:21

　　All: One-two-three-four, one-two-three-four, one-two-three-four, ah.

　　03:26

　　CC: There you go. All right, second line. One-two-three-four, one-two-three. One-two-three-four, one-two-three. One-two-three-four, one-two-three. One-two-three-four, one-two-three. Yeah. Now, that's what I call a-rhythm-etic. Can you say it? A-rhythm-etic. Audience: A-rhythm-etic.

　　03:52

　　CC: A-rhythm-etic. Audience: A-rhythm-etic.

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　　CC: A-rhythm a-rhythm. Audience: A-rhythm a-rhythm. CC: A-rhythm-etic. Audience: A-rhythm-etic.

　　03:58

　　CC: Yeah. Now pick the swing beat, and do the same thing. One, two, one, two, a-one-two-three-four. Yeah. Mm. One-two-three, one-two-three, one-two-three, one-two-three. Whoo.

　　04:20

　　So I want to take the second line beat and the swing beat and put them together, and it sounds something like this.

　　04:42

　　Aha.

　　04:43

　　A-rhythm-etic. Audience: A-rhythm-etic.

　　04:45

　　CC: A-rhythm-etic. Audience: A-rhythm-etic.

　　04:47

　　CC: A-rhythm a-rhythm. Audience: A-rhythm a-rhythm.

　　04:49

　　CC: A-rhythm-etic. Audience: A-rhythm-etic. CC: Yeah. Hip-hop. Now it's using a faster group of three we call a triplet. Triplet-triplet. Say it with me.

　　05:02

　　All: Triplet-triplet. CC: Triplet-triplet. Triplet-triplet.

　　05:11

　　CC: So I'll take all the rhythms that you heard earlier, we'll put them together, and they sound like this.

　　05:42

　　A-rhythm-etic.

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　　(Applause)

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