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The Collapsing Concept – Crushing Roll Rudiments to Create Contemporary Swing and Solo Ideas

The late, great author and educator Jim Chapin gave me this exercise in a lesson a number of years ago. It deals with the seven-stroke roll and Jim’s concept of collapsing the rudiment to create a six-note grouping. In our meetings, Chapin would encourage me to be creative with each rudimental idea and to come up with beat patterns and solo ideas that were my own.
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March 2015 Issue

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