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Bo Diddley Beat
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Basically, "bump... bump... bump... BA-dump." A rhythm used in blues and rock and roll music, made famous by Bo Diddley, the artist for whom it is named. He derived it from earlier rhythmic traditions, in particular the tresillo rhythm used in Caribbean folk songs and Cuban Rumba dance music (in reflection of this influence, a lot of the songs you'll hear with this beat use maracas, and a lot of tom-toms), and the similar rhythmic device they sometimes employed known as a "clave". Songs using the Bo Diddley Beat are notable in that they usually have no chord changes, or nearly none, instead creating musical tension by modulation of the rhythm. Ironically, while Bo Diddley used the beat in a number of his songs ("Bo Diddley," "Hey Bo Diddley", and "Mona," mainly) it's not especially prevalent in his original version of "Who Do You Love?," the song most associated with it, since cover versions of the song invariably do use the beat; George Thorogood even name-drops it in his version, heard on all the "Sam Adams" beer commercials. Here's some other songs that use it, in original or modified form: |
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