"I remember playing this at youth orchestra, the snare drum line is so disciplined it just repeats the whole way through and it's really boring to play as a drummer who just wanted to go a bit more jazzy and funky and just mess it up a bit which you do in rehearsals and get told off by the conductor but you'd never do in the concert! And now I've been asked by Radio 3 to reinterpret it I can do whatever I like so I'm going to really kind of develop those rhythms a little bit. I'm just going to play around with that rhythm cos it's like you can do all kinds of exciting stuff vocally in that sort of compound time you've got those tripletty kind of… Diggeta diggeta diggeta diggeta PSSSHHHH ppp-tkkitta tkkitta tkkitta tkkitta tkkitta KKKaa KKKaa tkkitta. PSSSHHHH ppp-tkkitta tkkitta tkkitta thhha sh-tkkitta tkkitta thhha. kkk-PSSSHHH ppp-tkkitta KKKKK-ka ppp-pppaa ppp-tkkitta KKKKK-ka PFIAOAUU - PFIAOAUU - PFIAOAUU kkuuu kkuuu kkuuu sssstickala pfffioaauw ki-ki. Prrrrrrrrr kik Brrrrrrrrrr ppp-tkkitta pssss ppp-tkkitta tkkitta Brrrrrrrr ppp-tkkitta pssss ppp-tkkitta tkkitta. BPRRRRRRRRR… You can just keep playing with it, it's a fascinating time frame to work with." Listen to Shlomo's live reworking of Bolero - with another beatboxer and two Hammond organs - at 6pm today on BBC Radio 3.
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