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Transport Yourself Back A Decade Or Five With These Classic Rock Videos
In Correlation With Our Drum Charts
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Got your drum charts? Great! Now check out the classic rock videos and play along!
A Note On Playing The Videos: Depending on your browser speed, it might be beneficial for you to, after you first press the play button, pause the video and let it load some before you begin watching. That way your viewing will not be interrupted with periodic loading pauses.
Also: Some of these videos play versions of the song (i.e. live versions) that may differ from the transcribed version in our drum charts. Most, however, are identical to our transcribed version. In any case, the exact audio can always be downloaded for around $1 from the Amazon MP3 store.
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| "I Believe I Can Fly" by R. Kelly |
"I Can't Go For That" by Hall & Oates |
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| The orchestra is on stage, but R Kelly is in the cornfield. The song actually went with a 1996 Looney Tunes movie about Michael Jordan called Space Jam. That's why Bugs Bunny and his buddies pop up in the music video. A nice song about hope, and a nice easy chart. | "Easy, ready, willing, overtime/Where does it stop/Where do you dare me to draw the line?" People still dig this song and here it is! |
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"I Can't Tell You Why" by The Eagles |
"I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye |
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| Smooth performance here. When I charted this song, I was surprised that the second page was almost all guitar solo. Great atmosphere. | Dave Marsh of Rolling Stone made a list of the Top 1000 pop recordings of all time. Guess what? This was his number one! This performance was recorded at the Montreux jazz festival in 1980. |
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"I Love The Nightlife" by Alicia Bridges |
"I Should Have Known Better" by The Beatles |
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| And this is what the nightlife looked like in the '70s. Also, the word "action" was pronounced "ak-SHAWN." | Ringo sure had a face for the movies. Famous scene from A Hard Day's Night. |
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| "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" by U2 |
"I Thank You" by Sam & Dave |
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| Live performance from U2 in Milan. Such a great, dramatic song. I'm a big fan of U2, and YouTube. | Sam & Dave with their supreme soul. Good stuff. |
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| "I Wanna Get Next To You" by Rose Royce |
"I Want To Know What Love Is" by Foreigner |
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| Light and tight, from the movie Car Wash. Delicate 16ths on the hi-hat. | Heartfelt song by the normally heavy rocking group. This is the music video. |
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| "I Wish It Would Rain" by The Temptations |
"If I Fell" by The Beatles |
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| Motown's arrangements were always classy. Beautiful song, beautiful suits. The Temps were always looking good. | From A Hard Day's Night. Ringo gets his feelings hurt in this scene. |
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| "If You Don't Know Me By Now" by Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes |
"I'm On Fire" by Bruce Springsteen |
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| This song is a case study in persistence. The group was together 20 years before they had a hit! And here they are on Soul Train. The message: Don't give up. Teddy Pendergrass is the vocalist in this 1972 hit. The drum chart is a nice change of pace because it is in a slow 6/4 feel. | In the music video Bruce Springsteen the mechanic takes the motto "service first" to an extreme as he delivers the beautiful lady's sports car in the middle of the night. Here in this video he gives a passionate 1985 performance in Paris. Drum: brush and crosstick. Beginners often have a hard time keeping up with the tempo. Give it a try. |
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| "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin |
"Is This Love" by Whitesnake |
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| Ah, ah, We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands, To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming! On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. (The above lyrics sung against a pounding, unrelenting guitar/bass/drums riff. |
Pretty girls and pretty musicians make for a pretty video. David Coverdale sings while veteran Aynsley Dunbar drums. |
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| "It's Now Or Never" by Elvis Presley |
"It's Only Love" by The Beatles |
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| Even in an army uniform, he had those Valentino eyes. This video has super old clips of early Elvis (and therefore early rock and roll). Those of Italian heritage might recognize the melody from an old song, "O Solo Mio." | Being a guitar player (strummer, actually) as well as a drummer, this is my kind of video: lyrics and guitar chords. John Lennon's working title for this song was "That's A Nice Hat." From the Help soundtrack. I'm going to write those chords down right now. Does anybody know how to play D augmented? |
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