Collecting a few things we’ve done with Jim Chapin’s Advanced Techniques For The Modern Drummer over the years, to make practicing those one-measure patterns a little more musically productive. Yes, it takes more time to […]
Category: Jim Chapin
Chapin cut and paste – triplets to 16ths
I am a writing machine right now, people. Having redone my Cymbalistic site, and moved this site over to WordPress, I am now editing a new book, which I stand a chance of actually finishing […]
Practice phrase for Chapin
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Interview: drum author Joel Rothman
[UPDATED 5/16 – Something I had to add to the piece came up in my correspondence with Mr. Rothman. See the new section labeled “PROFIT”] Joel Rothman is one of the more mysterious figures in […]
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 […]