{"id":12818,"date":"2018-12-06T10:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T18:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=12818"},"modified":"2023-03-05T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T23:23:18","slug":"harvey-mason-chameleon-herbie-hancock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/harvey-mason-chameleon-herbie-hancock\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Mason performs &#8220;Chameleon&#8221; by Herbie Hancock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xLzDjjzBmb4\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Released in 1973, &#8220;Chameleon&#8221; is a popular funk tune composed by Herbie Hancock in collaboration with Harvey Mason, Paul Jackson, and Bennie Maupin. The track later evolved into a jazz standard in 1974 and has become a staple for small jazz ensembles.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey told us the main drum groove was born straight from the bass line. He wanted to follow closely with the bass instead of providing a simple backbeat overtop. If you&#8217;re craving to learn it, we have a course inside <a href=\"https:\/\/Drumeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drumeo<\/a> where Harvey dissects his popular grooves and explains his approach behind creating them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Harvey:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs one of the world\u2019s top drummers, Harvey Mason has played with the who&#8217;s who of the pop and jazz music scenes, including Barbra Streisand, Seal, James Brown, Herbie Hancock, Jennifer Hudson, Frank Sinatra, John Legend, and the London Symphony Orchestra, just to name a few. His top playing and musical sensibilities have garnered him accolades over the years by being voted \u201c#1 Studio Drummer\u201d in the Modern Drummer Readers\u2019 Poll four times and nominated seven times for a Grammy award. Besides the music industry, Harvey has worked closely with the film industry by scoring movies, performing on over 150 soundtracks, and playing on over 20 Academy Awards ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvey Plays:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/canopusdrums.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canopus Drums<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.muratdiril.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Murat Diril Cymbals<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/remo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Remo Drumheads<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vicfirth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vic Firth Sticks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released in 1973, &#8220;Chameleon&#8221; is a popular funk tune composed by Herbie Hancock in collaboration with Harvey Mason, Paul Jackson, and Bennie Maupin. The track later evolved into a jazz standard in 1974 and has become a staple for small jazz ensembles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":12827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4021,4016],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19235,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818\/revisions\/19235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}