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Chaffee's method is a bit more than that. It really changes your approach.

Paul Marangoni wrote:Chaffee's method is a bit more than that. It really changes your approach.

Oh yeah, I agree. I'm just saying that with some guys very little goes a long way.

True. Plus, you need to be careful with Chaffee's stuff. It's easy to get carried away and apply it on gigs when it isn't appropriate. I was most definitely guilty of that.

Though I sometimes find his stuff to be on the obssessive / compulsive side of things, he has interesting ideas. Done and done. Thanks for the heads up.

Old Pit Guy wrote:

Paul Marangoni wrote:Chaffee's method is a bit more than that. It really changes your approach.

Oh yeah, I agree. I'm just saying that with some guys very little goes a long way.

I was fortunate to have gotten one lesson from Gary. 20 minutes and, yeah, life changing. He said books were great but imagination can be a lot more powerful when learning to improvise. He stressed taking a measure or two of rhythm from any source (best, write out a random pattern of 8th notes and rests yourself) and "exhaust the possibilities." He stressed trying to come up with as many different ways to approach that rhythm using all 4 limbs on the drumset and to play them musically. Apply various stickings, accents, dynamics, tempo; play between the written notes, forwards-backwards-inside out...create a technical study out of it applying finger control, Moeller etc. It's almost comical, when his series came out I saw all the stuff he was telling me in that 20 minute lesson spelled out in detail.

Just this second ordered this on amazon.