@Bee: I believe that you are referring to the first 3 off-beats of the measure, which are played on a wood-block heavily distorted with "gated reverb"... but I've never heard a chicken that sounds like that! :)

Love that rhythm Norm! What's the 3 repeated, quiet scraping sounds made by? Sounds a bit like a chicken! Interesting!

Wonderful Norm just wonderful.....I feel blessed....I've got my headphones on and Sebastian asleep in his crib beside me.......and have too keep taking them of because I'm sure he's crying in time ....very effective

If I could play drums like this my rhythm tracks would be much better. Enjoy just sitting back and listening to the many tones and varied rhythms.

thanks Norm - I bet Francis would have loved the persistent introspection of this groove! "..illumina le tenebre de lo core mio...

Excellent organic percussion! Solid gold.

Very, very interesting and addictive pattern here Norm.

Thanks Norm!!

thanks for the listen and rating!

I hear that

Very cool! I can explain the beer being gone!!

Oooo, 2.30 ish the little bit of quiver comes in. Nice! And, gets louder. Like it!

"4" does it for me. I like the, "I mean business" beats.

Ive done a collab with Mark , but never Tharek , this is a dream team , your percussion fits like a glove with this amazing song , i love it

I don't understand the Math behind it but I know it sounds Amazing! It is impressive the story you are able to tell with beats bro.

Very cool groovin' man

This is great mate really cool.

Dandy beat...I sort of got lost in it.

I like this just as a rhythm, mellow

Lovely swaying rhythm, O King of Ze Beats!

Oh so funky. Great work!

Huge. Just fantastic.

Very nice!

This is just perfect. I can't stop listening to it. "I need a riiiiide" is just brilliant!

Great guitar work here! (And your typical great vocals/harmony)

Fantastic!

Fantastic harmonies on all of your stuff!

Hilarious! Cool that you used home made guitar samples...

Now that's cool... love the hang drums!

"If only for a day..." - did that line actually work? Nice one!

Good point, Gumbo! That is the nature of "cross-over" patterns: they involve 2 rhythms with *different meters* which are played at the same *tempo*. So, regardless of listening to this pattern through the lens of 4/4 (8 beats/bar) or 3/16 (12 beats/bar), both patterns are played at the same tempo, i.e. 180bpm in this case. These patterns have measures that start at the same point, but do not end at the same point until cycling through 24 beats each - at which point they "cross-over"; a point that is illustrated by the clave in this example.

Totally pro, as is typical for you!

Suprise: much shorter than your typical pieces. Not a suprise: Once again, you stretch out to genres 3 clicks beyond the Bell Curve. Is there anything you can't tackle?? Nice work!

Big. Very big. Great work!

Good 'ol Charlie. A fitting tribute.

Ooo-la-la! Fantastique! Me rend souhaitez aller danser avec ma femme!

Great song. The tune reminds me a bit of "House of the Rising Sun", which can be traced back to the Appalachian area in the early 1900's (Alan Price of the Animals has claimed that the song was originally a sixteenth-century English folk song about a Soho brothel, and that English emigrants took the song to America where it was adapted to its later New Orleans setting.) Cool piece and well done!

How can you have your pork chops if you won't eat your little cup of swill? Well done, lads!

Groovy. Thanks, I enjoyed it!

Very clever! Great work with the chorus, too!