Miles Smiles

So I was listening to this album Miles Davis miles smiles and there's a song on there called footprints and it's one of those things that when I was younger Meaning like 46 or 47 before I started taking lessons It would have just sounded like five guys playing five different songs and then that Tony Williams was doing this Keith moon shit underneath it where he was just soloing or whatever and I was when I first Was listening to it. I the only thing I could kind of that was consistent was the bass line It was this bass line going Got that and I was just counting that I'm going okay. It's in six It's in six and it's and I don't know what Tony's doing and it's he's playing 90 mils million miles an hour But what's amazing about the song is in the middle of it Tony slows down and it's almost like he's like, okay stupid. It's in four All right And here's where it is Here's where beat two is and here's where beat four is and then after then he only does that for a couple bars and he speeds up again It's like a drum class and it's like oh my god, this guy's playing eighth notes Okay Against what this guy's playing that sounds like it's in six, but it's really just almost like three against four I know this is nerdy drum shit But there's got to be a drummer out there that understands it and then he's doing that metric modulation thing Which there wasn't even a fucking name for what he was doing to describe it with then as he's playing eighth notes That the eighth notes then he implies it that each one of those hi-hat hits is the two and four and plays the jazz that ding-ding-ding-ding-ding against that and then the E and the top become the fucking one in the three And he's playing that underneath all of their shit So the rest of the band I guess is sort of playing in an implied six while he's playing four underneath it doing this metric modulation to the four What fucking blows my mind is that he's playing at that fucking level and it roughly the same year I was joking with my teachers that that song by the Archie's sugar came out and was like a number one hit He's doing that and you know, they sell like 190th of the fucking albums That a song ah sugar boo boo boo boo boo boo Honey, honey, doo doo doo doo doo doo.