The Funklet — by Jack Stratton

For his Kickstarter project The Funklet Jack Stratton dissected the stone-cold rhythms of percussion heros Bernarnd Lee Purdie, Zigaboo, Clyde Stubblefield, and more, translating their funk drumming into superfly visual graphs that depict how these beat masters crafted their grooves. As Jack says, “Drummers can dig the accurate transcriptions. Cats who don’t read standard notation can gain a better understanding of the classics. Beat-makers can program with these nuggets. Design cats’ll dig it.” Jack just posted the above nugget as his first Project Update, a “video from the vault” of Jack trying to raise funds in a pre-Kickstarter world. Seems like a pretty rough break.

You can grab a copy of Jack’s booklet, aka The Funklet, for 20 bones. And you can watch Jack dance, aka funk the funk out, for free. (Spoiler alert: 2:30-2:53 is The Jump Off.)