Oh ya....that technique is as old as the sun to jazzers.......Joe Morello used to do that a lot in the Brubeck days I'm told. Probably goes back even further.....pre-swing era, maybe even pre-jazz days......

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My drum teacher recommended Jeff Hamilton as a good modern jazz drummer to study. I like it!

Working out of the Gary Chester book for coordination.

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I worked out of the Dagwood Bumstead book for coordination. I think you may have put me onto the genesis of my technique issues. Thanks!

Genesis technique? Ohhhhh....ya I like Phil Collins too....Falling DoLaughing H

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Great job, JIM. Nice! This is the movie that I referenced a while back when mentioning that old drum kit in another thread. I have all of the Blondie movies on DVD. They are a hoot to watch. My wife and I enjoy them ... though, not as much as Ma and Pa Kettle. Arthur Lake was perfect as Dagwood. He cracks me up at times with just a simple, "huh?".

He's playing a bit of the melody of a standard tune called "Things Aint What They Used To Be". They are playing a twelve bar blues, so Hamilton starts his solo by quoting the above named tune. It too, is a well known twelve bar blues in Jazz also.

Nice drum pitch control!!!

P.S. I think Duke Ellington's son Mercer wrote "Things Ain't What They Used To Be" and the Ellington band played it often. So, Hamilton is quoting Ellington.

Jeff Hamilton was on drums in a Diana Krall show I saw on TV not long ago.

Lots of it was brush work, and whatever cymbals he was using were so thin they wobbled when he glanced at them.

Now that's what you call working around the kit!