All the Breaks: The 300 Most Essential Drum Breaks of All Time

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Get Out of My Life, Woman / Get Out of My Life, Woman / Get Out of My Life, Woman (Panned, Right) Lee Dorsey , Allen Toussaint , Solomon Burke

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Impeach the President / Fool Yourself / Ode to Billie Joe (Panned, Right) Lou Donaldson , The Honeydrippers , Little Feat

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I’m Glad Your Mine / Sneakin in the Back / The Big Beat Tom Scott , Al Green , Billy Squier

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It’s a New Day / Synthetic Substitution / Hihache Skull Snaps , Lafayette Afro-Rock Band , Melvin Bliss

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Don’t Change Your Love / Ashley’s Roachclip / Survival Five Stairsteps , Annette Peacock , The Soul Searchers

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Telephone Girl / Rain Rain Go Away / Mixed Up Cup Clyde McPhatter , Bob Azzam , Assagai

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Who Is She (and What Is She to You) / Zimba Ku / Feel Good Gladys Knight & the Pips , Black Heat , Fancy

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Rapper Dapper Snapper / Super Sporm / Dance to the Drummer's Beat Edwin Birdsong , Captain Sky , Herman Kelly & Life

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The Sourcerer of Isis / Walk This Way (Panned, Right) / Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed Thin Lizzy , Aerosmith , Power of Zeus

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Ain’t No Sunshine / Ain’t No Sunshine / Ain’t No Sunshine (Panned, Right) Michael Jackson , The Temptations , Harlem Underground Band , Willis Jackson

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N.T. / Thank You Falletin Me Be Mice Elf Again / Footsteps in the Dark The Isley Brothers , Kool & the Gang , Junior Mance

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Get Out of My Life, Woman / Get Out of My Life, Woman (Panned, Right) / Get Out of My Life, Woman The Mad Lads , Q65 , Iron Butterfly

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Come Dancing / And That Says a Lot (Panned, Right) / Prove Your Love Fleetwood Mac , Christine McVie , Jeff Beck

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Long Red (live) / Doggone / Midnight Theme Love , Mountain , Manzel

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Put Your Hand in the Hand / Put Your Hand in the Hand / Put Your Hand in the Hand Les Humphries Singers , Elvis Presley , Ocean

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Hey! Last Minute (Break 1) / Hey! Last Minute (Break 2) / Here Comes the Metermen The Meters

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Sing a Simple Song (Panned, Right) / Sing a Simple Song (Panned, Right) / Sing a Simple Song The Meters , Sly & the Family Stone , Please

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Why Can’t People Be Colors Too? / God Make Me Funky / One Man Band Played All Alone The Headhunters , Monk Higgins , The Whatnauts

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Theme From the Planets / Rigor Mortis / You’ll Like It Too Funkadelic , Dexter Wansel , Cameo

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Sing Sing / Heartbeat / Bouncy Lady Taana Gardner , Pleasure , Gaz

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Weak at the Knees / Nobody Can Be You / Do Your Dance Rose Royce , Steve Arrington

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Wah Wah Man (Panned, Right) / Restless / Sneakin’ Sally Lee Dorsey , Young–Holt Unlimited , I Gres

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Amen Brother / Cussin’, Cryin’ and Carryin’ On (Panned, Left) / Honky Tonk Woman (Panned, Right) Ike & Tina Turner , The Winstons

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Lifetime Monologue / Never Ending Song of Love / Explain It to Her Mama Lou Rawls , The Temprees , Ray Charles

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The Boogie Back / September 13th (Panned, Right) / Foodstamps Roy Ayers , Eumir Deodato , 24‐Carat Black

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Funky President (Panned, Left) / Four Play (Break 1) / Four Play (Break 2) / A Blow for Me, a Toot for You James Brown , Fred Wesley

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Action (Break 1) / Action (Break 2) / Action (Break 3) Orange Krush

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Do the Funky Penguin (Pt.1) (Panned, Left) / Do the Funky Penguin (Pt.2) / The Breakdown (Pt. 2) Rufus Thomas

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Five Years / When the Levee Breaks / Hot and Nasty Led Zeppelin , David Bowie , Black Oak Arkansas

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Tramp (Panned, Right) / Tramp / Papa Was Too (Panned, Right) Carla Thomas , Otis Redding , Lowell Fulson , Joe Tex

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All Night Long / Chicken Yello (Give It to Me Baby) / Bring It Here Mary Jane Girls , Miami , Wild Sugar

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Kool Is Back / Fonky First / Burning Spear S.O.U.L. , Funk Inc. , The Silhouettes

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Is It Him or Me / I Got Some / Never Had a Dream Ohio Players , Jackie Jackson , Billy “Sugar Billy” Garner

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Space Funk / Ebony Jam / Come in Out of the Rain Parliament , Tower of Power , Manzel

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Knocking ’round the Zoo / You and Love Are the Same / Waiting for the Wind The Grass Roots , James Taylor , Spooky Tooth

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Love Theme / Take Off Your Make Up / You Are What You Are Fausto Papetti , Lamont Dozier , William Ray

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Down on the Avenue / Street Talk (Break 1) / Street Talk (Break 2) Fat Larry’s Band , Funky Constellation

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Still Good, Still Like It (Break 1) / Still Good, Still Like It (Break 2) / Runaway B.T. Express , Coke Escovedo

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Let the Drums Speak / Let’s Have Some Fun / The Jam The Bar‐Kays , Fatback , Graham Central Station

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40.

School Boy Crush (Panned, Left) / Keep Your Distance / Behind the Wall of Sleep Babe Ruth , Black Sabbath , Average White Band

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Break Through / Joy / They Long to Be Close to You Isaac Hayes

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42.

I Think I’d Do It / Cold Feet (Panned, Left) / Hit or Miss Albert King , Bo Diddley , Z.Z. Hill

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Use Me / Kissing My Love / Kissing My Love Bill Withers , Afriqué

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You Don’t Know How Much I Love You (Break 1) / You Don’t Know How Much I Love You (Break 2) / Black Grass Alphonse Mouzon , Wilbur “Bad” Bascomb

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Jungle Jazz / Give It Up (Break 1) (Panned, Left) / Give It Up (Break 2) (Panned, Left) Kool & the Gang

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Get Out of My Life, Woman (Panned, Left) / Get Out of My Life, Woman / Get Out of My Life, Woman (Panned, Right) Bill Cosby , The Leaves , Berry Window and The Movements , Dee-Dee McNeil

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Think (About It) (Break 1) / Think (About It) (Break 2) / Think (About It) (Break 3) Lyn Collins

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You’re Getting a Little Too Smart / Puzzle / Up Above the Rock Detroit Emeralds , Ray Bryant , Passport

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Scorpio / Catch a Groove / Uphill Peace of Mind Dennis Coffey , Kid Dynamite , Juice

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Spinning Wheel (Break 1) (Panned, Left) / Spinning Wheel (Break 2) (Panned, Left) / Spinning Wheel (Break 3) (Panned, Left) / Spinning Wheel (Break 4) (Panned, Left) Dr. Lonnie Smith

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Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll / Cutie Pie / Outstanding (Panned, Right) The Gap Band , One Way , Vaughan Mason & Crew

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Star Wars / Space Dust (Break 1) / Space Dust (Break 2) Dave Matthews , The Galactic Force Band

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