And all drum parts start off as bass, share, bass, snare and then in an audio editor copies of those beats are added to create a funky beat. Actually, that's not entirely true, as a few drummers can play more complex beats, which is why examples of isolated drums, such as When the Levee breaks with Bonham playing, have been so often sampled and used on other records, as it saves producers a lot of time.
Much as Ringo Starr has been maligned, in reality he's a brilliant drummer who can manage beats slightly more complex than bass, snare, putting him up there with Bonzo.
When disco arrived, all pretence at creating complex rhythms was abandoned as so much time had to be spent on creating all those complex, arpeggiated lines by slicing, copying and pasting the required notes using actual old-school tape, that to still get the record out in the 70s the drums were left untouched.
