Did the white american response to the Stono Rebellion unwittingly give rise to the most revolutionary and influential/global drumming style in music?

[IllmaticDelta]

No, I'm not trolling...I have those receiptsbut first, you must know what "old world drumming" was like globally/historically to put what I'll post later in the thread in its proper context. Some examples


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[IllmaticDelta]

Prior to the Stono Rebellion, slaves in the USA were allowed to make and play their native drums. There exists and original Akan hand drum that was once played by Virginian slaves

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........and then the Stono Rebellion happened



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the white american response to it and how their response impacted the slaves in Mainland USA

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Now, before I delve more into the USA slave drumming situation, let's take a look at "new world" era of drumming, when creolization processes were happening in the Americas amongst the various slave communities. Outside of the USA, the other 2 drumming powerhouses were Cuba and Brazil.


Cuba is pretty much 100% African hand drumming

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Brazil on the other hand, is a bit more diverse. They have the African hand drumming

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and a variety of Euro percussion instruments that they play with Afro-Brazilian rhythms

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[IllmaticDelta]

..back to the USA after the Stono Rebellion.

The slaves in the USA were deprived of their native drums but the percussive nature of West/West Central African music still needed to be satiated, so they started engaging in body percussion. These are the 4 limb body hits that we now know as "Pattin Juba" and "Hambone" (clave rhythm)

 

[IllmaticDelta]

From out of "Pattin Juba" evolved the syncopated foot percussion dance we now know as "Tap Dance"

 

[IllmaticDelta]

So how does the Tap dancing play a part in the role of the most influential drumming style/culture? Tap dance amongst Aframs established the role of foot percussion and they already had stick-based drumming from playing on European military drums. It made perfect sense that the next logical approach to drumming would somehow combine both aspects, and that's exactly what they did!

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The reason why the Afram drumming style was so revolutionary was because while the rest of the world was using a a collection of drummers to do single parts all by hand (playing with hands or sticks), Aframs came up with the idea to put disparate "Contraptions" together as a single unit along with pioneering the kick-drum, where all 4 limbs could be percussive, just like their pattin juba and tap dance culture. This instrument is what we now know as a "Trap Set" or "Drum Kit".

This would create what we now call "Groove" (many rhythms performed by one person at the same time)

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Nowhere on this planet did the concept of 4 limbed-based (both hands and both feet) cross rhythms/polyrhythms exist with independent coordination on drums exist until Aframs invented it!

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The reason why the Afram drumming style was so revolutionary was because while the rest of the world was using a a collection of drummers to do single parts all by hand (playing with hands or sticks),

Aframs came up with the idea to put disparate "Contraptions" together as a single unit along with pioneering the kick-drum, where all 4 limbs could be percussive, just like their pattin juba and tap dance culture. This instrument is what we now know as a "Trap Set" or "Drum Kit".

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Wynton sums up the formation of the Drumset

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The creation and rise of the drum set/trap set is also the rise of Jazz, the music the drumset was first invented to play

 

[GoPinheiro]

Nowhere on this planet did the concept of 4 limbed-based (both hands and both feet) cross rhythms/polyrhythms exist with independent coordination on drums exist until Aframs invented it!

Not going against you or the thread in general. But as far as this statement highlighted, did you make the statement based on your superficial views or because you studied multiple cultures around the world? Because the concept of foot drum exists in multiple Afro cultures, and it is usually used in the way that you described, it is 4-limbed-based (Except, the percussion mallet is not used at all).

Are you going to tell me this type of drumming below didn't exist before AAs?






PS: Do you think that the bass sound we see in guitars and etc, comes from instrumentals like the Diddley Bow?

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Not going against you or the thread in general. But as far as this statement highlighted, did you make the statement based on your superficial views or because you studied multiple cultures around the world? Because the concept of foot drum exists in multiple Afro cultures, and it is usually used in the way that you described, it is 4-limbed-based (Except, the percussion mallet is not used at all).

Are you going to tell me this type of drumming below didn't exist before AAs?

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Ghanaians don't do 4 limb independent drumming on the Gome. They don't actually beat/foot/kick out any rhythms with their feet on that drum if you pay attention. They're actually only sliding (putting pressure) their feet against the Gome to alter the pitch

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The guy in the first video is kinda doing beats/rhythms with his feet but he's no traditional Gome/Ghanaian drummer. That guy is actually an Afram jazz musician whose family was Afrocentric and gave themselves traditional African names.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

How did this drumset style of drumming become the most influential style of drumming, all around the globe? The answer is simple: Jazz!







The drumset/trapset was conceived to play Jazz music so when Jazz spread around the globe starting in the early 1900s, the drumkit was part of the package. This was the first time in history, every continent shared a universal drum setup/language.

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[IllmaticDelta]

What made the drumset/trapset and style of drumming that came with it so revolutionary? It was the way the pioneers of the drumset/jazz would synthesize African dispositions that were inherent to them and the Euro culture that they clashed with. This creolization would give birth to a style of drumming that could easily appeal to those who drum from an African POV and also those from a Euro POV, and obviously everything in-between.

Prior to Jazz/invention of the Drumset/Trapset, the population that would go on to give birth to those, played in parades with singular percussive instruments but with an inherent African influence.

They played clave rhythms that they knew since slavery

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with the knowledge of Rudiments

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These 2 things combined would give way to 2nd Line Parade drumming

 

[IllmaticDelta]

What made the drumset/trapset and style of drumming that came with it so revolutionary? It was the way the pioneers of the drumset/jazz would synthesize African dispositions that were inherent to them and the Euro culture that they clashed with. This creolization would give birth to a style of drumming that could easily appeal to those who drum from an African POV and also those from a Euro POV, and obviously everything in-between.

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when the people who eventually pioneered Jazz, moved on from the European military drum setup (individual players on bass drum, snare drum, crash symbols etc..) of 2nd line, they evolved the drumkit

In Jazz, one makes all the instruments "Talk" by varying pitches of said instrument. As this pertains to drumming, in West Africa/West Central Africa, they had/have Talking Drums that are based around altering pitches by putting pressure/squeezing the drum




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The Aframs that evolved the drumkit applied this same technique on the "Tom-Tom" section of the drumkit.




They would then take this concept a step further to all the other "Traps" on the drumset and invent what we now call Melodic Drumming