Video Lesson: Jazz Drummer’s Workshop – Crossovers with Steve Fidyk
On 26th Feb 2016
This excerpt is taken from the complete article that appears in the April 2016 issue, which is available here.
Jazz Drummer’s Workshop
Crossovers
10 Exercises to Improve Drumset Facility
This month’s lesson focuses on the crossover, a technique that legendary drummers such as Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Louie Bellson, Jo Jones, and Sonny Payne popularized in their extended solos. Employing crossovers can help maintain the continuity and flow of single-stroke phrases you play around the kit without altering the sticking.
With a crossover, one hand will pass over the other while moving to a different part of the drumset. Here’s what a left-hand crossover looks like as it passes over the right to the floor tom.
Check out the video for this lesson below.
Steve Fidkyk
For the complete lesson with transcriptions, check out the April 2016 issue, which is available here.
