Shave and a haircut - two bits -The Bo Diddley beat!

This rhythm originated with black American Baptist church music. Recall the James Brown scene in the Blues Brothers movie and you will get the idea.

An interesting delta blues song to listen to (but no drums, just guitar and voice!)is Preachin'Blues by Son House who had in fact been a Baptist preacher. (Often the early delta performers recorded under two names and personae, one as a blues man, and the other as the Reverand so and so.)

This post is for the drummers, um well really for myself 'cos this beat is fun to work with,
and every drummer should know it to keep the guitarists in his life happy!

I can't talk a lot about drumming, so I welcome comments, suggested links, etc from drummers.

http://drumsdatabase.com/bodiddley.htm