A very small item here, for making your time practicing single measures of independence patterns a little more productive. Try it when practicing Chapin— that Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer— or for any other […]
Category: Advanced Techniques
Chapin exercises in 5
This is what you do during quarantine when it’s too hot to practice or doing anything else serious: capture jpegs of a well known drum book, open it up in Paint.net, and cut it up […]
EZiest swing in 5/4
Teachers’ item here. In working with various beginners, younger students, and hobbyists, you have to be flexible and creative in how you show them things. At those stages, differences in how people learn are really […]
Coordination “kernels” – further examples
You may have noticed I’ve been on rather light posting this last week. Expect that to continue for the next several days; this week I’ll be recording my new CD for the Origin label, Little […]
Source tunes for Chapin
Thanks to my man Ed Pierce and the Sep. 1994 issue of Modern Drummer, here (well, after the break) are the source tunes for the long exercises in Jim Chapin’s Advanced Techniques. As you’ll see, […]
Learning to comp with 16th notes is a necessary misery.
Here I’m elaborating on what some comments in a Drummerworld.com discussion on these pages/recorded example from Jim Chapin’s Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer: I could just be trying to drag everyone else into my […]