{"id":1594,"date":"2025-09-21T19:57:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:57:05","slug":"groove-of-the-day-al-jackson-soul-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/groove-of-the-day-al-jackson-soul-dressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Groove of the day: Al Jackson &#8211; Soul Dressing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s a hip groove from Al Jackson on the tune Soul Dressing, by Booker T. and the MGs, from their 1965 album of the same title. They recorded so many of these tight little 45s, R&amp;B miniatures\u2014 very controlled, minimal, perfectly composed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gotd_al-jackson-soul-dressing-1024x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gotd_al-jackson-soul-dressing-1024x237.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gotd_al-jackson-soul-dressing-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gotd_al-jackson-soul-dressing-768x178.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gotd_al-jackson-soul-dressing-1536x356.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gotd_al-jackson-soul-dressing-973x226.jpg 973w, https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gotd_al-jackson-soul-dressing-508x118.jpg 508w, https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gotd_al-jackson-soul-dressing.jpg 1549w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The right hand comes to the snare drum for that ghost note on the &amp; of 4; that note is played near the edge of the drum, and is muffled because the left hand is resting on the drum for the rim clicks. Often a quarter note is played on the cymbal on beat 3 of both measures, instead of the 8th notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BOOKER T AND THE M,G&#039;S - soul dressing\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lDw7c0OnS34?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a hip groove from Al Jackson on the tune Soul Dressing, by Booker T. and the MGs, from their 1965 album of the same title. They recorded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[508],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-groove-of-the-day","tag-groove-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}