I got a chart yesterday with 130 bpm 16ths everywhere.  Not really syncopated but grouped in 4 and 5 beat phrases.

Anyone have any favorite blazing funk patterns to share with felix?  I've played a bunch of funk patterns, but the blazing stuff I havn't spent a lot of time jamming on.

I probably have a few of the books you all have, so if you just want to reference those...great.  

I'm psyched!

The piece is already written and charted and I WONT be playing a bo diddley clave-in fact I'm not sure if a clave ostinato will sound hip (I can't believe you said that! *hurl*)...it's simply fast as you can 16th note funk...I really don't like the sound of latin rhythms on the whole unless they are americanized somewhat.  But yeah, they propel the groove nice, sometimes;  I really hate most authentic sounding latin grooves and claves for the most part though.  Just way too ethnic sounding for my taste.

I think that harvey mason groove is notated in a rick latham book...I'll have to check again.  I'll keep it in mind.

Thanks, but not for the Bo-Diddley reference.  

The Roy Burns book, One Surface Learning, has got some neat inverted paradiddle grooves in it. You probably don't need the book unless you've not done it before. If you know all your inversions and can mix them up, you'll do better to just experiment.

I take them and move them around the kit more. I understand it sounding a bit dated if you just stick to the snare and hihat vibe. Throw in some syncopated accents and do some of the linear stuff you mentioned. Garribaldi's Future Sounds taps into that a lot.