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I always enjoyed Cream, it was one of the best Rock trios around. This is sad news.
 

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Was reading that Baker hated Jack Bruce... with violent tension there-in (as Baker could be a seriously loose canon).
 
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One of the greats! Listen to him in β€œToad”
 

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Wore out two Disreili Gears vinyl albums!
 

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Ginger Baker was indeed a loose cannon. He was a tormented soul, had many issues, addiction being just one of them. That said, he was a genius, and is probably the greatest drummer, not just in rock, to have ever picked up a pair of sticks. We will not see his like again. RIP.
 

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I with my total lack of musical knowledge could not really follow the score but when my wife watched it she pointed out that every time note was on the bottom row the foot pedal was used.
So in that piece the drummer was working to the music score. In "Toad" is Ginger Baker going from Memory like a pianist would do or a bit more like a Jazz musician and improvising?

presumably by beat

 
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In Toad I would guess staying to the basic pattern with a lot of improvising. There are various cuts of it out there, not all alike but similar.
 
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I have heard some Jazz music described as a colouring book. It gives you the outline to stay with in but you chose the colours. Some pieces by some artists you play note for note with no embellishments.

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