The device looks like this:įull instructions for making your own are provided in Making a Canbell. Paton has designed a Canbell that has the sensivity for brush playing that is difficult to achieve with a cow bell. The Tips and Tricks page is devoted to more practical aspects of brushes: playing them and novel devices to break through the limitations of percussion instruments. Paton's impeccable research and excellent writing add significantly to the history and body of knowledge. If you are interested in the history of brushes and brush playing, Mr. That device's history is contained in the second article in the articles page titled, What Swat: a guide to early wire brushes. The design of the original brushes - indeed, the brush itself - was a fly swatter circa 1895. In addition to the roots of brush playing, this article also traces back the development of the brush itself. The irony is the pioneering New Orleans drummers, such as Louis Cottrell, Sr and Baby Dodds eschewed brushes. In the latter it appears that Louisiana was particularly important. He also traces the development and evolution of suitcase drumming in which brushes were used, as well as the importance of barbershops as musical centers of gravity and where some of the whisk broom rhythms were born and evolved. He backs this up with copious citations within the article. Paton cites a deeper source: shoe shine boys who employed their individual rhythms in brushing down their customers with whisk brooms after they shined the shoes. Also, on his instructional DVD, Brushworks - The DVD, Clayton Cameron devotes a segment to the same relationship. In the book that accompanies The Art of Playing Brushes, Mark Griffith wrote a chapter titled A History of the Brushes in which he delves into the relationship between tap dancing and brushes. Paton's view of the roots of brush playing departs from conventional thought, which is tap dancing. What makes this article particularly valuable is Mr. The most engrossing document is from the Articles page titled, Never Swat a Fly! (the origins of brush playing in jazz).
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