Swinging the Wilcoxon Solos on the Drum Set

Here is a video lesson on how to swing the solos from the book Modern Rudimental Swing solos by Charles Wilcoxon.
Practicing this will help develop better coordination and technique for use in soloing and playing fills.
I demonstrate several ostinatos with my feet and play the solos over these.
These are solos are performed with their relative timings..

Time Stamps for each solo:
0:00 Description of lesson
4:32 Rolling in Rhythm
6:58 Rhythmania
10:38 Swinging Accents
14:40 Roughing the Single Drag
17:45 Study In Accents
21:25 Lorain Post Dug-Out


The sticks I am using are my own signature Vic Firth Model which they make for me.
They are not for sale to the general public however I do make a similar stick from persimmon.
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The snare drum I am using is a 14"x 5.5" Gretsch COB model 1460 from the 1960's with calf heads.
The set drums used in the video are Gretsch Centennial from 1983. The sizes of these drums are: 18"x14" bass 14" floor tom .
The cymbals in this video are
1940's K Zildjian 21"ride
Paiste Traditional 22" swish.
13" Sabian HH Hi Hats
The drum heads are all calf skin. Microphones are a AKG C24 stereo overhead and an Shure Beta 52 on the Bass drum.

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