The Chapin Book -Part 5 - Hand/Foot Dotted Rhythms
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Here is part 5 of a video series on playing and practicing Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer by Jim Chapin.
This lesson covers Section 4 Part A, pages 35-37 which is the Hand/Foot dotted (shuffle) rhythms.
In this series I will play through the exercises and solos in the book chapter by chapter so you can get a feel for what it should sound like.
This classic book was the first of it's kind back in the late 1940's and the subject was jazz coordination. The book teaches coordination in the swing and early be-bop styles which was what was being created in those days.
Like most of you this was the first jazz coordination book I worked on starting at 11 years old. At that time I thought it was impossible to play but I managed to get through it slowly with the guidance of a great teacher.
Today the book is slightly dated with much more modern approaches available. It is however still very relevant, fun, and challenging to play and I use it with students to supplement other texts that I employ.
In this part 1 of the series I give a brief introduction to the book as well as my history with it. I also cover the first chapter which contains shuffle rhythms.
The drums used in the video are Gretsch Centennial from 1983.
The sizes of these drums are: 18"x14" bass,10",12",14" toms and a 14"x 6.5" snare.
The cymbals in this video are all 1940's- 1960's K Zildjian except for a Paiste 22" swish.
Cymbal sizes
21" ride
18"crash/ride w/rivets
16" crash
15" Hi Hats
22" Paiste swish/china with rivets
The drum heads are all calf skin.
Microphones are a AKG C24 stereo overhead and a Shure Beta 52 on the bass drum.
This, is great...
👍🏻🥁. These videos are gold 🏆 ! Nice to see how this book was intended to be performed. Thank you so much for sharing🙏
Yes!!!
Awesome, Rick did you know Kenny Malone only had 6 weeks to train drummers in the arny before they were sent to various group in armed forces he took them thru thiese pages?? He considered it the beats they would encounter most often//
Thanks for this and for being a super player
Thanks Rick,
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Great teacher!
Wow! For just exercises you make it extremely musical and actually a lot of fun to listen to. That really helps.
Your videos are fantastic. Hearing the Chaplin book performed is so helpful.
Hi Rick. Can you talk us about the Dynamic accents in this book and how they must be interpreted? Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Hi Juan
You can play the accents a written but it is not a must. I teach it with and without. Playing them involves a good deal of weak hand technique which makes it much more difficult for younger players. It's more of a phrasing issue and they are written very musically. I did not play them all in my demonstrations.
Ideally you would want to experiment moving the accents around which was featured in the 2nd Chapin book which is now out of print.
Great. I' ve got it. Thanks a lot for your videos. They are a Great help for drummers as well for teaching