{"id":34245,"date":"2022-03-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=34245"},"modified":"2022-08-20T09:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:42:08","slug":"dennis-chambers-james-brown-drum-beat-fatback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/dennis-chambers-james-brown-drum-beat-fatback\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Chambers Explains Your Favorite James Brown Drum Beats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D_ij3gsHW1s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he was just 13 years old, Dennis Chambers was invited to play drums with the legendary James Brown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t allowed to go on tour unless he brought a tutor with him, and unfortunately it wasn&#8217;t possible at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dennis Chambers went on to have an incredible career anyway, cutting his teeth with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/a-drummers-guide-to-funk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Parliament\/Funkadelic<\/a>, John Scofield Band, Carlos Santana and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Chambers will always remember the James Brown opportunity and continued to enjoy his music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing he learned to play was called a &#8216;fatback&#8217;, a beat whose name developed from a specific-sounding groove Brown wanted to hear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find the fatback in many James Brown tracks, including &#8220;I Got The Feelin'&#8221;. What makes it different from the even more legendary &#8216;funky drummer&#8217; beat? Chambers demos both in this short but sweet video about two groundbreaking grooves from the late 60s\/early 70s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want more Dennis Chambers videos and stories? Check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/dennis-chambers-drum-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free full lesson<\/a> from the last time he visited the Drumeo studio!<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Chambers shows you the difference between James Brown&#8217;s fatback and the funky drummer beat, with some cool stories in between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":34289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4017,4025,4019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beats-and-fills","category-drum-beats","category-drummers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34245"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34354,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34245\/revisions\/34354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}