Written in the 60's, published in the 70's, Jim's book revolutionized modern drumset playing for a second time as the book can be studied in over 10,000 ways! In fact, the combinations are so imaginative that some say this work predicts the future of modern drumset playing.



After ten months of negotiation during 2004, Dom Famularo & Paul Hose Enterprises Limited re-released Jim Chapin's Advanced Techniques for The Modern Drummer, Volume 2 across the world! Jim first introduced this dramatic new concept in drum education back in the 1970s. The book has a unique and ingenious format that presents an incredibly wide scope of study with practical work ranging from relative simplicity to exercises that may actually anticipate the future.



This book presents a unique concept in the study of drums. The book is in three-ring notebook format. The pages are of thick cardstock that clip into a section where dozens of plastic inlays may be put over each page to produce an infinite number of variations on the exercises. The idea is that no two drummers that study the book will be playing the same exercises. You create your own program by choosing what inlay goes over what to create exercise or phrasing to add to your own repertoire that will be unique to you.



Jim says: "The format of interchangeable two-line exercises is the salient feature that sets this book apart from any other. It still surprises me how many valuable' even useable, combinations turn up when you juggle the "windowed" cover sheets with bound in syncopation sheets. I believe that the exercises here are enough to keep any practicing drummer occupied for a lifetime - no exaggeration intended - and they only represent a small percentage of the possibilities. The trick lies in the selective choosing the portions of the book that fill the needs of the individual." Jim recommends that owners of this book don't try and attempt to study it from cover to cover. The work within is in part based on a mathematical formula that allows the book to expand in to well over 10,000 pages! The best approach is to take what you need from the book as and when you need it.



Many of the worlds Greatest Drummers Credit their skills in part to Jims teaching and his Books, Take a look - Steve Gadd, Vinnie Colaiuta, Dave Weckl, Dennis Chambers, Billy Cobham, Gregg Bissonette, Liberty Devitto, Chad Wackerman, Danny Carmassi, Joe Morello, Ed Shaugnessy, Chester Thompson, Larrie Londin, Sonny Emory, Anton Fig, Alan Dawson, Danny Gottlieb, Joe Franco, Ed Soph, Butch Miles, Jake Hanna, George Marsh, Roy Burns, Les De Merle, Casey Scheuerell, Peter Criss, Joe Bergamini, John Blackwell, Will Calhoun, Frank Corniola, Udo Dahmen, Paul Delong, Robin DiMaggio, Virgil Donati, Rick Gratton, Claus Hessler, Neil Martin, Marco Minneman, Charley Morgan, Jonathon Mover, Bruno Meuss, Dom Moio, Manu Obry, Urbano Oliviero, Willie Ornelas, Cloy Peterson, Sergio Ponti, Mike Portillo, Johnny Rabb, Walfredo Reyes Jr, Walfredo Reyes Sr, John Riley, Frank Rossi, Gordon Rytmeister, Mike Schack, Chad Smith, Ed Thigpen, Mani Von Bohr, Georg Voros, Billy Ward, Derico Watson, Zoro, & Dave Garibaldi.



This are just a few of the colossal list of drummers that Jim has benefited from this, this unrivalled, unequalled work of art and work of pure genius!