To further celebrate the soulful, timekeeping majesty of this month’s cover artist Earl Young, we dove into the Modern Drummer archives to find ten other groove masters talking about how they make the music move. Greg Errico, October 2011 “Sly Stone had great producing chops, and the songs would morph and grow in the studio. We would first cut the rhythm tracks, and then the horns and vocals. After all of the tracks were recorded, they would erase the original drum tracks, and I would play along to the rest of the band—which added a whole new vibe to the song. There were no click tracks then, and the feel and the arrangement would often change as the horn parts and vocals were added. So, by the time a song was finished, it was totally different from when we originally cut the rhythm tracks with drums, bass, guitar, and Hammond […]

August 2021 Issue