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Tap Theory - April Instructionals
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Author:  The_Afro_Circus [ Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:47 am ]
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So once again I'm putting out this month's instructional videos in a snowstorm. I feel as though spring is laughing and saying "April fools!"

Anyway, this month, complete with exercises are two videos on topics I'm excited to introduce. As an aside, this month is seeing Tap Theory break 50 individual pieces of curriculum, sitting at 57 things for people to go check out and learn. Give them a look over at https://www.patreon.com/jgoldbergmusic

One for basic major and minor chord shapes:


And one for looking at the Stick through the eyes of a drummer to approach groove:


I hope you like them!
Author:  pwrightyp [ Mon Apr 03, 2017 7:11 am ]
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Hey Josh

Great video, thanks so much. I've been talking with Steve A. about the rhythmical importance of the Stick recently. It can be such a grooving instrument yet so many players often focus on the ethereal, floaty qualities of the instrument (which of course still sounds amazing and just shows the Stick as the versatile thing it is).
I've been working on just simply walking in the LH and improvising in the RH but the stuff you have put up here is certainly on my 'to focus on' list. I particularly loved the 'laying back in the pocket' analogy of your fist being the beat with the front edge of your fingers being 'pushing' and the back edge being 'laying back'. I use a similar analogy with students where I cycle my hand out from my chest....forward cycle for pushing so the beat falls on the outer part of the cycle away from my chest and a reverse cycle for sitting so the note falls as the circle is at my chest (hard to put into words, easy to show, I hope that makes sense). The circle is still the beat but the note falls in a slightly different place so the groove is affected accordingly.
I love a good analogy!

Anyway, thanks again. The care you take in getting your point across makes it so helpful.

Paul
Author:  The_Afro_Circus [ Mon Apr 03, 2017 11:43 am ]
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Paul,

Thanks man, your words carry a lot of weight as you've been a music educator at a professional level for a long time. I gravitated toward the groove thing honestly BECAUSE I was having trouble with walking and improvising at the same time (I'll likely do a video on that as well, as I have a few methods that work for me that might help others). It just made sense to me to focus on workable grooves, less moving my hand around, less thinking, more feeling it out.

I've always felt that if you can't explain something to a 5 year old in a way that they can understand, then you yourself don't truly understand the subject you're talking about. That thought always pushed me to find simpler and better ways to get right to the core of a concept. I'm glad that comes across!
Author:  Jayesskerr [ Wed Apr 05, 2017 8:01 am ]
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The_Afro_Circus wrote:
I've always felt that if you can't explain something to a 5 year old in a way that they can understand, then you yourself don't truly understand the subject you're talking about. That thought always pushed me to find simpler and better ways to get right to the core of a concept. I'm glad that comes across!



Without a doubt. I have also always thought this way; "Explain it to me as if I were a five year old" Simplified doesn't always mean "dumbed down".

Cool, Josh!
Author:  paigan0 [ Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:54 am ]
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The_Afro_Circus wrote:


I've always felt that if you can't explain something to a 5 year old in a way that they can understand, then you yourself don't truly understand the subject you're talking about. That thought always pushed me to find simpler and better ways to get right to the core of a concept. I'm glad that comes across!

Josh, you've done a great job of breaking things down and explaining them simply. And that's an old teacher's trick (of any subject): if a student (or teacher) can't explain it simply to someone else, they don't really know it yet. I learned so much as a new English teacher just trying to put into words things I "knew" intuitively, as a native speaker. And many a time, I would try to explain something only to (finally) realize that I didn't really understand it myself. And it was waaaaay worse as a teacher of English to Non-English speaking children and also adults (3 years teaching English in Japan): time after time I would realize I don't know exactly WHY we say or do anything--we just do!

I know now why we say "Bless You!" when someone sneezes (Dark Ages Europe thought your soul left your body if you sneezed hard enough, since sneezy people in the Dark Ages died a lot..."God bless you!" and keep your soul (from leaving)). I asked Japanese students what they said when someone sneezed. "Etto (Err....) nani mo nai! [Nothing!]"

Random tangent; sorry! But I enjoyed the video a lot and your instructional method and thank you! "Explain it to me as if I were five..."

[Kenji Satou, 7th grader Japanese, asks "Why didn't you say 'Explain it to me as if I was five'?"]

Well you see Kenji, there's the subjunctive verb case....
Author:  ArmyDoc [ Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:49 am ]
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Dude! That second video was awesome. I guess these concepts are old hat for some people, but I've never heard anything like that. I have no background in drums, so it really helped me understand how music is put together rhythmically. Thank you very much for posting it!
Author:  The_Afro_Circus [ Wed Apr 12, 2017 11:15 am ]
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Hey everyone thanks for the kind words!

Army, glad you were able to get something fresh out of it!
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