The Amen Variations

This EP-in-progress is to be a collection of pieces built primarily from a 16-beat drum break played by Gregory Coleman in The Winstons' Amen My Brother. This break has been heavily sampled by the hip-hop community and its varied and various suburbs. The sound and excitement of this particular passage are so widely used and recognized that it is referred to simply as the amen break, similar to the rhythm changes in the jazz community…