Aaron Spears Beyond the Chops: Groove, Musicality and Technique
by Robert Wallis
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Actor: Aaron SpearsDirector: Robert Wallis
Brand: Music Video Dist
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 187 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-10-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 320907
Studio: Hudson Music
Product features:
- 2 disk DVD setUncompressed PCM stereo audioIncludes 21 page printable eBook3 hour 7 minute running time
DVD Reviews of Aaron Spears Beyond the Chops: Groove, Musicality and Technique
DVD Review: SHHHH.... Its a secret hidden under cryptic analogies, like "Feel".
Summary: 1 Stars
Aaron Spears is a bad-a$$ player! This dvd demonstrates his indisputable amazing talent and technical ability.
Other than that there are not really any significant insights, other than a "flash" drummer telling you not to be "Flashy".To me the entire dvd is an insult to any kind of instruction or analysis. Anytime any of the students/audience asks an intelligent articulate question, the answer was vague, or the ever present cryptic analogy, "FEEL" it.If they could "feel" it or begin to understand that approach, they wouldn't be there. I am sure that Aaron can't process everything he is doing, when he's letting it go, but he could have given some insight on how to develop the"feel" that produces those psycho-pated fills. Jojo Mayer, bless his soul, tries to get some kind of technical or insightful answer from Aaron, but to no avail.
I understand that his greatness has more emotional direction than cerebral, but he mentions how he analyzes himself and how hard he is on his technique. Yet does not dissect his technical approach at all or offer any true insight whatsoever. Of course he has developed and ingrained his approach to "gospel" fills, but he had to develop it and was not born with such attributes automatically. I think he should have "dissected" his approach on how to begin developing these syncopated fills with some kind of polyrhythmic "starter kit" for metric modulation or even explaining foot/hand technique more than "rebound" or "feel". This is a good dvd if you utilize the slow-mo and dismiss everything except his playing segments and realize, your on your own-kiddo!
Where is the instruction or insight into Aaron's playing or anything else, than someone who says do what I say not what I and just feel it?
Thanks Aaron, I'm no better off, thanks for the obvious.
Thats just like my opinion,
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Description of Aaron Spears Beyond the Chops: Groove, Musicality and Technique
Beyond The Chops: Groove, Musicality & Technique showcases the rising star s phenomenal drumming that critics, fans and even his peers have described as "beyond category". The 2-disc, 3-hour program offers amazing performances, enlightening educational segments and revealing interviews as Spears displays his natural talent, deliciously fat groove and incredibly deep skills in a set of spectacular performances with Gospel, R&B, Motown, rock, shuffle and odd-meter tracks. Furthermore, Beyond The Chops provides an inside, in-depth look at Aaron s exceptional ability to combine a wide range of musical genres and influences into a seamless, powerful, new style of drumming that has placed him among the first generation of elite and essential drummers to emerge in the 21st Century. Following his blazing performance segments, Aaron hosts a Q&A session in front of a master-class and then sits down with drumming icon Jojo Mayer for a candid interview covering everything from his Gospel roots to his recent work with Usher, the Backstreet Boys and the American IdolŪ Tour. Aaron also provides insight into the unique rhythmic vocabulary he has created with many of the grooves and fills transcribed in an accompanying 21-page printable eBook. For additional lesson support, the DVD also includes a special sub-menu that connects each notated exercise in the eBook directly to the video example it supports.Bestsellers in DVD
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