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No matter how good I get at something like #BeatSaber, I don't think my brain will ever not break at the idea of tapping out a polyrhythm (ref: https://youtu.be/Ez8Q68h9i4M?t=413) Like... two rhythms, potentially sustained? keeping count?? looking cool and calm??? Nah.

Anyway, Larnell Lewis is a delightful drummer and you should listen to his stuff if you like #jazz fusion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd1X5JWaGgQ (original work) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd_UcjMusUA (him trying Metallica on for size) are fun.

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in reply to Melissa Avery-Weir

Melissa Avery-Weir
Melissa Avery-Weir
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When I think of the defining musical genre of my childhood, it's the radio-genre we called "smooth jazz", which cast the widest of nets from Sade and Everything But the Girl to Peter White and (of course) Kenny G.

Finding my way back towards jazzy stuff I like in recent years is fun! I've sat through some jazz performances that were "experimental" enough that I didn't know what to *do* during the interminable solos, but I've also listened to SMV's Thunder album a million times.

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