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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the American Olympic speed skater, see <a href="Jim_Chapin_(speed_skater)" title="Jim Chapin (speed skater)">Jim Chapin (speed skater)</a>.</div>
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</style><table class="infobox vcard plainlist"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de; font-size: 125%;"><div class="">Jim Chapin</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"></span><div class="infobox-caption">Chapin in 2006</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1919-07-23</span>)</span>July 23, 1919<br>New York City, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">July 4, 2009<span style="display:none">(2009-07-04)</span> (aged&nbsp;89)<br><a href="Fort_Myers" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Myers">Fort Myers, Florida</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Jazz" title="Jazz">Jazz</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">
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</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Musician</li><li>educator</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Instrument</th><td class="infobox-data note">Drums</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de"></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">10, including <a href="Harry_Chapin" title="Harry Chapin">Harry</a>, <a href="Tom_Chapin" title="Tom Chapin">Tom</a>, and <a href="Steve_Chapin" title="Steve Chapin">Steve</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="James_Ormsbee_Chapin" title="James Ormsbee Chapin">James Ormsbee Chapin</a> (father)</li><li>Abigail Forbes (mother)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Family</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Kenneth_Burke" title="Kenneth Burke">Kenneth Burke</a> (father-in-law) <br> <a href="Jen_Chapin" title="Jen Chapin">Jen Chapin</a>, <a href="Chapin_Sisters" title="Chapin Sisters">Chapin Sisters</a> (granddaughters) <br> <a href="Samuel_Chapin" title="Samuel Chapin">Samuel Chapin</a> (descendant)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
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<p><b>James Forbes Chapin</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/tʃ/: 'ch' in 'China'">tʃ</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span>/</span></span> <i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">CHAY</span>-pin</i>) (July 23, 1919 – July 4, 2009) was an American <a href="Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> drummer and the author of books about <a href="Jazz_drumming" title="Jazz drumming">jazz drumming</a>. He is in the <a href="Percussive_Arts_Society" title="Percussive Arts Society">Percussive Arts Society</a> Hall of Fame<sup id="cite_ref-drummag_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drummag-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was posthumously inducted into the <i><a href="Modern_Drummer" title="Modern Drummer">Modern Drummer</a></i> Hall of Fame in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2></div>
<p>Chapin was born in Manhattan, New York, the son of Abigail Forbes and painter <a href="James_Ormsbee_Chapin" title="James Ormsbee Chapin">James Ormsbee Chapin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chapin first played piano and clarinet, and left college at the age of 18,<sup id="cite_ref-AM_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AM-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when he started to play the drums, studying with <a href="Sanford_A._Moeller" title="Sanford A. Moeller">Sanford Moeller</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-drummag_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drummag-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>After stints in an assortment of bands, Chapin played with <a href="Red_Norvo" title="Red Norvo">Red Norvo</a> in 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-AM_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AM-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Chapin coined the term "coordinated independence" to describe the skill of a drummer where "both hands and feet are performing parts which are rhythmically independent from one another".<sup id="cite_ref-Brennan_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brennan-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His <i>Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer</i> textbook was published in 1948.<sup id="cite_ref-Brennan_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brennan-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time, it was perhaps the only such book targeted only at drummers.<sup id="cite_ref-Hartenberger_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hartenberger-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, a writer for <i><a href="Drum!" title="Drum!">Drum!</a></i> magazine wrote that it was "arguably the most important drum set text ever written".<sup id="cite_ref-drummag_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drummag-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 1954, Chapin led a band that played weekly at <a href="Birdland_(New_York_jazz_club)" title="Birdland (New York jazz club)">Birdland</a> in New York City;<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> this continued into 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-AM_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AM-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His sextet of Don Stratton (trumpet), <a href="Billy_Byers" title="Billy Byers">Billy Byers</a> (trombone), <a href="Phil_Woods" title="Phil Woods">Phil Woods</a> (alto sax), <a href="Sonny_Truitt" title="Sonny Truitt">Sonny Truitt</a> (piano), and <a href="Chuck_Andrus" title="Chuck Andrus">Chuck Andrus</a> (bass) recorded the album <i>Jim Chapin Ensemble</i> in 1954;<sup id="cite_ref-FSR_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FSR-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it was reissued in expanded form as <i>The Jim Chapin Sextet</i> around 1960.<sup id="cite_ref-FSR_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FSR-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BB1960_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BB1960-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year, he led an octet of <a href="Jimmy_Nottingham" title="Jimmy Nottingham">Jimmy Nottingham</a> (trumpet), <a href="Urbie_Green" title="Urbie Green">Urbie Green</a> (trombone), <a href="Bob_Wilber" title="Bob Wilber">Bob Wilber</a> (tenor sax), Phil Woods and George Dorsey (alto sax), <a href="Hank_Jones" title="Hank Jones">Hank Jones</a> (piano), and <a href="Wilbur_Ware" title="Wilbur Ware">Wilbur Ware</a> (bass) that recorded <i>Profile of a Jazz Drummer</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FSR_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FSR-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BB1960_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BB1960-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chapin played with bassist <a href="Marshall_Grant" title="Marshall Grant">Marshall Grant</a> between 1958 and 1960.<sup id="cite_ref-AM_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AM-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>For eight months from October 1968, Chapin taught drummer <a href="Gene_Krupa" title="Gene Krupa">Gene Krupa</a> weekly, helping Krupa in his recovery following <a href="Emphysema" title="Emphysema">emphysema</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Korall_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Korall-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1971, Chapin's <i>Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer, Volume II</i> was published.<sup id="cite_ref-drummag_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drummag-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Chapin traveled around the world teaching and presenting seminars, including teaching <a href="Peter_Criss" title="Peter Criss">Peter Criss</a>, after he left the group <a href="Kiss_(band)" title="Kiss (band)">Kiss</a> in the early 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Chapin instructional video, <i>Speed, Power, Control, Endurance</i>, was released in 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-drummag_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drummag-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chapin died in Florida on July 4, 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-drummag_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drummag-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Jim_Chapin.html">Article on Jim Chapin at <i>Drummerworld</i></a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/jim-chapin">2004 oral history interview for the National Association of Music Merchants</a></li></ul>
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