moontheloon
Silver Member
I would argue that this exactly what we are all talking about regardless of the genre of music. I would consider "sticking combinations or passages around the kit" are in fact "chops" and I would consider them every bit as important to jazz and reggae as I would any other style. It's all in the pursuit of developing vocabulary on the kit. I think vocabulary and chops as the one and the same.
I'm still baffled by this semantic argument.
I would disagree and say you can play passages around the kit all day that dont require "chops"
my 9 year old students play passages around the kit in every lesson....I wouldnt say they have "chops"