Scott Garrett (March 16, 1966, Washington, D.C.) is an American

drummer A drummer is a percussionist who creates music using drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one mem ...

. He is known as the drummer for Wired All Wrong and Coloursound, and as support drummer for J between 1997 and 2016. He was also temporary drummer at the last few shows of God Lives Underwater. Bands Garrett played with include Neverland,

Pop's Cool Love Pop's Cool Love was an American rock band from Los Angeles in the early 1990s, featuring multi-instrumentalist and street dancer Suga Pop, guitarist Mike Tyler, bassist Myles John O'Brien, keyboardist Jerry Cohen, and drummer Tal Bergman (later of ...

, The Cult, The Mission UK and Dag Nasty.

Biography

Scott Garrett grew up in Takoma Park, Maryland. Before age 10 he began drumming under the tutelage of

William Frank Reichenbach Sr. William Frank Reichenbach Sr. (December 18, 1923 – May 16, 2008) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist, who co-developed the jazz-samba drumming style. He was the father of trombonist Bill Reichenbach Jr. and the singer Kurt Reichenbac ...

legendary jazz drummer for

Charlie Byrd Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz on the album '' Jazz Samba' ...

, the

Stan Getz Stanley Getz (February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, with his prime influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of ...

album '' Jazz Samba'', and co-developer of the jazz-samba drumming style and American wave of Bossa Nova enthusiasm. From Reichenbach's training and exposure to the drum style in the D.C. area Go-Go Scotts's approach to meter and rhythm developed.

Technique

In technical terms, "Go-go's essential beat is characterized by a

syncopated In music, syncopation is a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat. More simply, syncopation is "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm": a "place ...

, dotted rhythm that consists of a series of quarter and eighth notes (quarter, eighth, quarter, (space/held briefly), quarter, eighth, quarter)... which is underscored most dramatically by the

bass drum The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. The instrument is typically cylindrical, with the drum's diameter much greater than the drum's depth, with a struck head at both ends of the cylinder. Th ...

and

snare drum The snare (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin. Snare drums are often used ...

, and the

hi-hat A hi-hat (hihat, high-hat, etc.) is a combination of two cymbals and a pedal, all mounted on a metal stand. It is a part of the standard drum kit used by drummers in many styles of music including rock, pop, jazz, and blues. Hi-hats consist o ...

... ndis ornamented by the other percussion instruments, especially by the conga drums, timbales, and hand-held cowbells.

Discography

With J

;Albums * ''Pyromania'' (July 24, 1997),

Oricon Albums Chart The Oricon Albums Chart is the Japanese music industry standard albums popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon. Oricon originally published LP, CT, Cartridge and CD charts prior to the establishment of the Oricon Albu ...

Peak Position: #9 * ''Blood Muzik'' (December 27, 2001) #34 * ''Unstoppable Drive'' (November 27, 2002) #18 * ''Red Room'' (May 19, 2004) #24 * ''Glaring Sun'' (December 7, 2005) #39 * ''Urge'' (March 14, 2007) #39 * ''Ride'' (April 23, 2008) #36 * ''On Fire'' (March 21, 2012) #24 * ''Freedom No.9'' (October 23, 2013) #31 * ''Eternal Flames'' (September 2, 2015) #15 ;EPs * ''Igniter #081'' (July 18, 2002) * ''Crack Tracks'' (August 21, 2002) #28 * ''Go with the Devil -Crack Tracks II-'' (July 9, 2003) #26 * ''Stars From The Broken Night'' (August 5, 2009) #20 * ''Here Comes Nameless Sunrise'' (December 16, 2009) #36

Other work

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; '' 3.2.1.'' (1998) – additional drums on "Electric Cucumber" and "Pose" Neverland, Interscope

References

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