Loren Schoenberg, who conducted the famous Mel Lewis history of jazz drumming interviews, has begun posting excerpts from the interviews on his YouTube page. Which is lucky, because I think the source from which I originally downloaded it has dried up.
In this video Mel talks about the rub-a-dub concept, with an excellent example of it being done as a high-energy comping idea by Tiny Kahn. Most of it happens during the solos after the vocal scatting. If you have checked out Chris Smith’s video outlining this idea, it should be easy to hear how Kahn is using it:
Once again I highly recommend getting Jack Dejohnette and Charlie Perry’s book The Art of Modern Jazz Drumming— the meter-within-meter chapter is basically indistinguishable from rub-a-dub.
Thanks. How would use use the left foot with this (right foot with first right hand, left foot…)?