Critical Comping
+ Sticking Brain
Critical Comping trains four-way coordination for bebop comping, with your attention on where every figure sits in the bar. Sticking Brain trains compound stickings until they turn into phrases you can actually play.
Both methods are built the same way: a small amount of material, organised with care, practised with your attention on where every note lands and what it says.
“At home I could do it.”
I hear it from students all the time, and I believe you. But if you cannot do it here and now, you do not own it yet. One works on four-way coordination at the kit, the other on the hands. The idea under both is the same: shorten the distance between what you study and what you play.
Two methods, one purchase
Sticking Brain
Compound stickings as a technical and mental trainer.
Sticking Brain is a 133-page method in 9 chapters, built on compound stickings: combinations of single and double strokes, practised until they turn into phrases you can actually play.
- ✦Preliminary exercises
- ✦Starts in 4/4
- ✦Starts in 6/8
- ✦Permutations in 4/4
- ✦Permutations in 6/8
- ✦Smoothers, section A, in 4/4
- ✦Smoothers, section A, in 6/4
- ✦Smoothers, section B, in 4/4
- ✦Smoothers, section B, in 6/4
Critical Comping
Four-way coordination for bebop comping, practised with your mind switched on.
Critical Comping is a complete study program in 13 chapters. It takes the classic four-limb coordination of jazz comping and trains it the way you will need it on the bandstand: with your attention on where every figure sits in the bar, and on what it says.
- ✦13 chapters in teaching order. Each one prepares the next.
- ✦The complete PDF book. Every score, plus advice on how to study each exercise.
- ✦A video lesson for every exercise in every chapter.
- ✦Scores that scroll on screen while I play, so you read and hear the exercise together.
The free video you signed up for is chapter 2 of this course. The full course is the whole program: all 13 chapters, the complete book of scores, and a video for every exercise.
The free lesson you received is the opening of this book: the groups of eight and six and their most common accent variations. The full book carries on through all 9 chapters.
Jazz drummers and all-around modern drummers who already practise coordination, have done the reps, and want that work to show up on the stand.
You can be a student or already a pro looking for the next step. Sticking Brain is a starting point: a direction for your practice, so you are fully present while you learn. The main actor, not a spectator.
Daniele
Chiantese
Session player, producer, sound engineer, educator and clinician, Daniele is a versatile and eclectic drummer who has toured and recorded with some of the top names, from Jazz to Pop, of today's Italian and international scene.
He has performed at the major European music festivals, drum festivals and music fairs, run international clinic tours, and coordinated teaching programs with some of the most renowned conservatories in Europe.
Across a long career he has observed and listened to several thousand drummers, helping them reach their goals in playing efficiency and professional reward through his constantly evolving teaching method.
One payment · Lifetime access to both
Get both →What do I get?
The full Critical Comping course (video lessons plus the PDF book of scores) and the Sticking Brain PDF book, 133 pages.
How long do I have access?
For life. Buy once and both stay in your account.
I already own one of them. Should I buy this?
No. The bundle includes both, so buy the one you are missing on its own page.
Can I get a refund?
Because you get both the moment you buy, all sales are final.