Texy by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Let me introduce you to one of my great drummers and let me tell you what I know about him: Swiss Chris, who’s real name is Christoph Flueck, is originally from Switzerland. I met and played with him for the first time in Greg Tate’s Burnt Sugar Orchestra in Harlem in 2008. Later he invited me to play with him at his Aung San Suu Kyi benefit concert in Williamsburg later that year. We both enjoyed playing together. I liked his modern drumming approach: fusing drumming and sample manipulation and his ability to play polyrhythms. Like me he loves improvisation. With all this said it was very easy for me to ask him to join my band, called the Tehran-Dakar Brothers at that time, later in 2009. He also recorded with me on my new CD SoSaLa Nu World Trash.
About The Book & CD
Modern Drum Set Stickings features: drum set sticking charts in duplet and triplet applications; a drummer’s checklist for instant musical advancement in melody, subdivisions, basic stickings, orchestration, pulse, dynamics and resolution points; plus a CD with more than 90 audio examples of grooves and solos in different styles using the sticking chart.
This book will inspire you to want to learn and grow as a drummer, a musician and a person! This is the true path to being one with your instrument. Enjoy the journey!
Dom Famularo, Drumming’s Global Ambassador
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Drum-Stickings-Swiss-Chris/dp/1603781323
About Swiss Chris
After getting his Bachelor’s Degree in performance from the Berklee School of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, Chris moved to New York in 1996. He started working as a drummer with “Milo Z” and working with Hip Hop Old School Legends like Chubb Rock, Charlie Brown from the Leaders of the New School, Slick Rick, Grandmaster Caz, and the Rock Steady Crew. Besides being a drummer he’s been also a musical director, producer, educator and music activist. His greatest achievement until now was touring and recording as the musical director/drummer for the (8-time Grammy nominee) 3-time Grammy winner and multi-platinum artist John Legend.
He studied at the Drummer’s Collective in New York and Dante Agostini Switzerland (certificate in Contemporary Music). He received multiple awards and honors as a marching band field drummer and as a big band and contemporary jazz drummer from his homeland Switzerland.
Swiss studied with diverse teachers like Bob Moses, Marvin “Smitty” Smith, Kim Plainfield, Casey Scheuerell, Joe Morello, Jim Chapin and last but not least, he is still taking lessons with the Drumdoctor Dom Famularo.
