![]() ![]() We really get along and are just the best of friends.” “But what brought it really together and kept it together, the glue, is our friendship and our brotherhood. “Those two worlds colliding worked really well,” he says. Werth, who describes himself as young and eager to work at the time, immediately latched on to Searight. Searight was at the time more experienced than Werth and many others in Snarky Puppy, having toured with Grammy-winning gospel star Kirk Franklin. Werth joined Snarky Puppy after he graduated, where he met Searight. Every semester I was taking 23 credit hours or something, but only 13 or 14 of those were going toward my degree.” “Where most people would come in and get a taste for it and go back to their program and get back to what their degree was in, I just loved all of these different worlds of music and those classes,” he says. Werth started playing drums in middle school, and when he started music school at the University of North Texas, he piled on credit hours playing in Afro-Cuban, South Indian, Brazilian and other esoteric ensembles. That’s likely thanks to the fact that Werth and Searight are deeply nerdy about their craft. Werth describes Ghost-Note as “a celebration of rhythm,” and the band’s music indeed runs the genre gamut from funk and jazz to more modern hip-hop and EDM influences. The instrumental tunes are crafted as highly listenable pop songs, built around drumming, but not necessarily calling an audience’s attention to that fact. Werth and Searight share the spotlight with drum work that’s accomplished and complex, but not showy. ![]() Ghost-Note, which will play Sunday at Cliff Bell’s, includes guitar, keys, bass and saxophone, but percussion is undoubtedly the band’s lead instrument. “But in the end … whatever is going to get us out of conversation on a day-to-day basis musically is going to be someone playing a really fat groove. “Obviously I love watching virtuosos do incredible drum fills and feels and chops,” he says. When they struck out on their own to form Ghost-Note in 2015, Werth says he and Searight wanted to emphasize what they love most about percussion: the pursuit of a great groove. Werth and Searight met and formed a close bond while drumming in the Grammy-winning Texas-based jazz jam band Snarky Puppy. But the duo’s mission is also, in Werth’s words, decidedly “anti-drum solo.” Nate Werth and Robert “Sput” Searight have built their band Ghost-Note around their instrument of choice: percussion. ![]()
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