{"id":282,"date":"2023-09-19T22:52:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T22:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/nuove-correnti-o-mode\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T22:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T22:25:03","slug":"new-trends-or-fashions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/nuove-correnti-o-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Gospel Chops: Fad or a Real New Style?"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>Periodically, musical waves arrive that change the balance of customs. African American communities, which for many generations have met regularly in churches to sing in large groups, both a cappella and accompanied by a band, release an irrepressible energy. Many prominent figures in world music were born there, such as the great Aretha Franklin, to name one of the most representative voices of soul music.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6929\" src=\"http:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/e65db635-65bc-4173-b5e7-efa95be6efdc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Musicians who accompany singers, and specifically drummers, have developed traditional drumming rudiments, which include sticking (combinations of single and double strokes) and linear phrases (combinations of strokes between hands and feet). So far, nothing new, but they have developed them exponentially, creating a real language or, if you like, a new style. They are called \u201cGospel Chops\u201d. I am referring to those new models of hyper-technical drumming that sometimes border on the circus-like. Obviously, in a world where speed reigns supreme, all this has a great appeal, especially among young drummers.<\/p>\n<p>Already Gary Chaffee, a teacher at the Berklee School in Boston <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XFqTm61bEzA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XFqTm61bEzA<\/a> More than forty years ago, he wrote a series of innovative books. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garychaffee.com\/booksdvds\">https:\/\/www.garychaffee.com\/booksdvds<\/a> where he explored the application of this technique in depth, these books are now part of the curriculum of all drumming schools and have certainly been a reference point for Gospel Chops drummers as well.,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KFMMcEuYoaQ\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KFMMcEuYoaQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Being a technically very \u201cflashy\u201d drumming style, it is often used to show off one's technical ability in online videos, which, however, sometimes borders on repetitive exercise for its own sake, neglecting the musical content.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Periodicamente arrivano delle ondate musicali che cambiano gli equilibri delle consuetudini, le comunit\u00e0 afro americane, che da molte generazioni si incontrano regolarmente nelle chiese per cantare in folti gruppi sia a cappella che accompagnati da una band, sprigionano un energia incontenibile, moltissimi elementi di spicco della musica mondiale sono nati l\u00ec, come la grandissima Aretha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_afmh_email_preheader":"Origini, tecnica e limiti dei Gospel Chops: nuovo linguaggio batteristico o virtuosismo fine a se stesso?","_afmh_resend_on_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batteria","category-musica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrofois.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}