# THE AMEN BREAK

> From the Roots to the Rave - AMEN


## Posts

- [Drumming in the Limelight](https://theamenbreak.com/drumming-in-the-limelight/): How often is a drum break the centre of attraction? Rather, hiding in the shadows. But central to the whole.

## Pages

- [Grace NOTES](https://theamenbreak.com/contact/): Ideas, thoughts and doodles welcome.
- [Copyright](https://theamenbreak.com/copyright/): Following Richard Lewis Spencer’s death in 2020, the copyright to “Amen, Brother” passed to his estate. However, the rights surrounding the track are divided into two parts and remain practically unenforced:
- [The T-Shirt](https://theamenbreak.com/the-t-shirt/): Two Bars, Amen – Sampled 7848 Times.
- [Samples](https://theamenbreak.com/samples/): Hard to believe 7848 songs have sampled “Amen, Brother”, but you can find a list here.
- [Listen](https://theamenbreak.com/listen/): The Winstons, “Amen, Brother” (Metromedia, 1969). Drums: Gregory C. Coleman. Audio via Wikipedia.
- [The Score](https://theamenbreak.com/the-score/)
- [History](https://theamenbreak.com/history/): G. C. Coleman played the drums. Four bars. Six seconds, maybe seven. A break buried in the B-side of a 1969 single.
- [The Break](https://theamenbreak.com/the-break/): Four bars of drums. About seven seconds. Played by one man, in 1969.


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