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The Collapsing Concept – Crushing Roll Rudiments to Create Contemporary Swing and Solo Ideas
Steve Fidyk
On 23rd Feb 2017
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.
March 2015 Issue