{"id":1522,"date":"2021-02-12T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2025-12-22T21:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:54:35","slug":"all-smiles-with-the-ghost-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/12\/all-smiles-with-the-ghost-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"All Smiles with the Ghost Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you ever need have a moment with someone who has infectious energy, great grooves, and will make you smile and laugh with delight, look no further than the amazingly talented Bernard &#8220;Pretty&#8221; Purdie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The talent Bernard has is amazing and has affected music for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out this video of him recalling his first drum solo.  Simply amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bernard &quot;Pretty&quot; Purdie: from &quot;My First Drum Solo&quot; #bernardpurdie  #drummerworld\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jJZSlhhrnPI?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\n\n\n<p>As a percussionist, you only wish you had found someone like Bernard early in your musical pursuits. But now is better than never.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Purdie\">Bernard &#8220;Pretty&#8221; Purdie on Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever need have a moment with someone who has infectious energy, great grooves, and will make you smile and laugh with delight, look&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,21],"tags":[207,206,205],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-resources","tag-drums","tag-percussion","tag-pretty-purdie","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}