File:Winwood - Higher Love - opening drum solo.mp3

This is an audio sample of the 1986 Steve Winwood song "Higher Love" from the album Back in the High Life. The sample is mostly the initial drum solo composed and played in November 1985 by John Robinson (drummer), followed by more instruments and the first few words sung by Winwood. The recording was made in New York City at Unique Recording Studios, engineered and mixed by Tom Lord-Alge in 1986. The producers of the song are Winwood and Russ Titelman. The credited writers are Winwood and Will Jennings, though Robinson came up with the drum part on his own. The record label is Island Records.

The sample is 23 seconds long, less than 7 percent of the total song length. The sample is lower quality than the original, having been encoded at 192 45 kbps into a compressed, lossy MP3 format, much lower than the original uncompressed 1,411 mbps CD quality the Spotify streaming quality.

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• It is a sample of 23 seconds from a much longer recording, and could not be used as a substitute for the original commercial recording or to recreate the original recording.
• It is of a lower quality than the original recording, at only 192 45 kbps MP3 format.
• It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted sample of comparable educational value.
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• The audio sample is a copyrighted work. U.S. copyright laws apply to this work. Should a free or public domain sample be located, it should be used in place of this audio sample.

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