I've written about this book before here on FFL, card. I also have
written that Jim Chapin was Harry Chapin's father so that non-drummer
folks here could relate. I also have written that I took drum lessons
during the summer of 1962 which I spent in Seattle and my teacher, Dave
Coleman, taught from Chapin's book. He also taught many other local
drummers apparently including Mitch Mitchell. Coleman suggested that I
try applying the patterns in the book to rock. Hence was born the
"Seattle Beat" that emerged on records coming out of the Northwest from
groups like the Wailers, the Sonics, Dave Lewis whose drummers all
studied with Coleman.
Coleman also suggested I try playing a double time swing pattern instead
of straight eights for rock. That pissed off a lot of small town
musicians I played with because "it wasn't like the record!" Of course I
explained to them "the record" was what that drummer played on that
particular take and of course that didn't endear much either.
Apparently Jimi Hendrix didn't mind as Mitch Michell played like that on
his albums.
I taught many students from Chapin's book but later adopted Rick
Latham's "Advanced Funk Studies" for students, even beginners. This
book, like Chapin's, takes the student from very simple rock patterns to
complex ones that top fusion drummers of the 1980s were playing.
Students who went through that book with me could play about anything.
On 06/26/2014 03:38 AM, cardemais...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer, Vol. I
In the early 1940s, Chapin began working on a drum instruction book
that was eventually published in 1948 as “Advanced Techniques for the
Modern Drummer, Volume I, Coordinated Independence as Applied to Jazz
and Be-Bop.” This book has been known as "the definitive study on
coordinated independence" for jazz drummers. After the release of the
book, he carried a pair of drumsticks in his back pocket at all times
in case he was called upon to demonstrate a particularly difficult
passage so as to prove that every pattern in the book could be played.
Still in print today, it became known among drummers simply as “The
Chapin Book.”^Jim Chapin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jim Chapin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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James Forbes "Jim" Chapin (July 23, 1919 – July 4, 2009) was an
American (New York born and bred) jazz drummer and the author of
popular texts on jazz drumming, the first two volumes of which are
Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer, Vol. I, and Advance...
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