Bo Diddley Beat

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Eddie Palmieri "Congo Yambumba"

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Davido feat. Mafikizolo "Tchelete (Goodlife)"

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Davido "Jowo"

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Thomas Dolby "Europa and the Pirate Twins"

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ha i think there might be a few million songs w/rock in the title! here's one with a bo (or at least bo-adjacent) beat

it's a good title, more artists should use it!

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Aretha Franklin "Rock Steady"

nice!

that's a good gig. go, nephew! i'm not sure i'm qualified to discuss the intricacies of a perfect circle rhythms, but i do love 6/8 time in general :)

i love this! so much fun. mostly i hear the straight four the bass is playing and then all sorts of cool accents happening around it. no idea what you would call it :)

thank you for your comment, and for the challenge!

in the jones song, for example, i hear the bdb literally in the opening bars of the drums, and then it's implicit throughout the rest of the song even when the drums aren't exactly holding to it

i have a fairly wide/generous allowance for what constitutes a bo diddley beat. i'll count pretty much anything in pop (and beyond) based on a three-two clave rhythm. it doesn't require the practitioners to have heard of bo diddley. it requires them only to be touched by the same rhythmic spirit...

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Sault "Fields"

Ha, and thank you, but no worries at all. There are a million posts to come, and I claim no exclusive usage on any of them. The more sharing, the better :)

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A lot of songs of every era use it!

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Rihanna "If It's Lovin' That You Want"

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Gloria Jones "Heartbeat"

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