BeatTips MusicStudy: The Notations – “I’m Still Here”

By Amir Said On Nov 6, 2010

A Lesson in Cooking the Groove

By AMIR SAID (SA’ID)

Once the groove gets established, it’s continuously “cooked”—driven home and delivered with such incredible eloquence.

(Hearing a song like this makes one wonder how The Notations never really made it *big*. Still, their legacy of stirring soul lives on.)

The music video below is presented here for the purpose of scholarship.

The Notations – “I’m Still Here”

Amir Said (Said) is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of BeatTips. A writer, publisher, and beatmaker/rapper from New York now living in Paris. Said is a co-founder of the publishing company Superchamp Books and the author of a number of books, including: ‘The BeatTips Manual,’ ‘The Art of Sampling,’ and ‘The Truth About New York.’ He is also a recording artist whose made a number of music projects, including his latest album 'The Best of Times.' Follow him on Twitter at: @amirsaid and @BeatTipsManual