Tips for Practicing and Performing The All American Drummer by Charles Wilcoxon

[@VinceSamios]

Rick I'm aware of how much effort these videos are to make, they're fantastic, and I wanted you to know your work is extremely appreciated.

[@rickdior]

Thanks Vince

[@ryancox5097]

Rick, you somewhat remind me of Vinnie, in the sense that you don't just dabble in types of drumming outside of the drum kit. You seem to take mallet percussion, rudimental percussion, sight-reading, composition, stylistic versatility, etc, very seriously. You're obviously a true professional. Much respect.

[@Rossa1958]

Hi Rick, thanks so much for your efforts to share all this. The explanation of flams, along with everything else is exceptional. I am playing snare drum in a marching band as an adult, returning to drums after not playing for many years. I have this book and chipping away at solo’s 1-6 at the moment. best wishes from Australia

[@WilliamSmith-pp3ip]

What an awesome video. Leaving Stone aside the most productive thing I ever did to improve my playing was to work this book daily for a couple of years. When I started I was very left-handed and had a weak right hand. At first I tried to reverse the stickings but that got really confusing, so I learned the whole book with the exact stickings written. My hands evened out dramatically. Today I will find myself in the orchestra playing right hand lead just because it feels natural (maybe not on Shostakovitch). Great work Rick!

[@rotwolfbuerg]

Hi Rick, I'm from Germany. I do this Wilcoxon Etude's a lot in 1980 thru 1984 during my studies at Music Academy in Graz. I think you are the guy with the best drum channel on youtube. Many thanks and best wishes from Germany.

[@olysses31]

I got All American Drummer a month ago as a Christmas present, there's enough ideas in it to keep practicing for a lifetime. I use them first as a reading exercise, then to practice rudiments and finally as a piece of music. Then I watch your video and see how badly I got it wrong. This video is especially helpful, thank you.

[@DogbadTV]

This is grad-school work, and compared to this music my hands are still in kindergarten! I've got to say I never bought the Wilcoxon book, because I figured it was above my pay-grade (I've got more than enough material I haven't mastered in other books) ; thanks to you I finally understand what's going on in these solos, which is the first step in someday climbing up to this level. Your generosity in posting all these solos is above the call of duty. Muchas Gracias, Rick!

[@MrRCOTE]

Rick, I so much appreciate what you're doing. I've had these books for years and could not go through them because of my reading ability... or non ability. Now I can follow the written page with the video and freeze frame on any technical issue.

[@rickdior]

That's great, glad the videos are helping you

[@brunoanderson2570]

Sir, your playing is stellar! Incredibly clean rolls. Thank you for these videos. 👍👍

[@stalliec]

Outstanding explanations, demonstrations, and "heads up" info - thank you Rick!

[@gabrielgarcia-gd7sd]

Your videos motivate me to keep drumming, thank you for posting them.

[@MegaMikeray]

Wow! Thank you for all of your work, skill, and generosity in making this available to us. What an amazing resource!

[@deeaplw]

Best way I have spent a Friday night in years! Glad I found your stuff on KZbin! I hope Walker is doing well for you!

[@sebastiana.estrada5927]

Exquisite technique!!

[@rickdior]

Thank you Sebastian

[@kevinaquarius6011]

Hi. I am buying a Charley Wilcoxon book & wondered which one might be best to start with, I do like Philly Jo. Thank you :)

[@jimfarey]

I've watched several of your solo uploads from this book. It's a fantastic resource you've given to us all. I've been working through Camp Duty Update and been on a bit of a tanget with Wilcoxon. Getting my students into a few of the starter études. Great tips, great knowledge of the idiom, great playing, great attitude, no BS. Thanks, Rick. Be interested to hear your thoughts on Camp Duty Update as I think the 19th century American drumming was probably very different to how the drum corps play now. Love all those stretched rolls where the only important thing is to fit the roll and taps in musically. 👍🏼❤️

[@rickdior]

Hi Jim You can see the original 3 camps here with the melody kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3e7Yp2cq8inmaM I also have a three camps playlist where I perform my book Lets go Camping. This includes the original as well as many variations. Thanks

[@jimfarey]

@@rickdior thanks for the links. I'll check out the tunes. 👍🏼

[@jimfarey]

@@rickdior I should also add, for clarity, Camp Duty Update is a book and audio of new and reimagined traditional pieces, not just the Three Camps. :)

[@davidbouet2723]

Thanks for these videos Rick! Would love to hear you play the train by Dante Agostini!

[@markfitzell5574]

Hi Rick, these are a great help, thank you for your generous contributions Just a question regarding the seven stroke roll stickings... solo2 has the sticking as I have been working on - finishing on the opposite hand that started, but then in solo 3 it has the starting and finishing hand as the same. Is this because of the drag in Solo 3?

[@rickdior]

Hi Mark A seven stroke roll will always begin or end on the opposite hand . The drags in solo 3 are actually part of the roll. They begin on the "e" or 16th note pulse. In this case the roll begins on the drag and one 16th earlier than the 8th note 7's which are faster in tempo than the rolls with the drags. If you watch my Wilcoxon tips video this will be clearer. You can find that here kzbin.info/www/bejne/naWrf6R3l9hpbbM

[@markfitzell5574]

@@rickdior Thank you immensely Rick for your reply :) it has cleared that query up and thank you again for all your amazing tutorials. They are certainly a valuable resource for myself and I'm sure many others.

[@rickdior]

My pleasure Mark

[@MH-il1lk]

I'm interested if there are transcriptions of these solos for drum set?

[@DennisBergDrums]

Great video man! Whats always puzzles me about wilcoxon is the way he uses the beams that indicate which value the note is. In my understanding its: One beam = 8th notes, 2 beams 16th notes, 3 beams = 32nd notes and so forth. Not for him it seems. For example the solo you were talking about with the open 13 stroke roll (147). You said thats basically one bar of 16ths notes which makes sense. So that would be 12 notes plus the one of the next bar making it a 13 stroke roll. BUT he notated the beginning of the roll with THREE beams NOT two which makes absolutely no sense to me. Because one dotted half note is three quarter notes is 6 8th notes and 12 16th note what is right. But then again it has THREE beams or flags which actually are 32nd notes which would be 24 notes per bar? I find that extremely confusing. So basically every solo I look at it takes me 10mins just to figure out how many notes to play ;D Any thoughts or tips on that?

[@AntonBereznyak]

My attempt to perform this solo :)

[@willwagnerwaguinho]

❤

[@tonnapunn4312]

Hi Rick,nice playing. I’ve been using Wilcoxen’s books for the last 25 years in my teaching also. I wanted to put some William Schinstine solos on KZbin. Do you know the copyright laws. Can I show the whole solo or only a few bars while playing?

[@rickdior]

Hi You cannot display any portion of a published solo without permission from the publisher. That is a violation of copyright laws.

[@tonnapunn4312]

@@rickdior thanks for replying. I thought so. I’ve contacted Southern Music. Many thanks.

[@tejorch]

What kind of snare drum do you play?

[@rickdior]

Read the video description. You will find it there.

[@glpxt]

Creepy eyes …

[@rickdior]

Those are my new x-ray glasses