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Learn to play and improvise on the jazz standard "Spain" by Chick Corea. Spain is among many of the must know jazz standards featured in this drum set course. This is my take on it. The grooves covered in this lesson are the Mozambique, Songo, Baion and Samba with some of the fills broken down and some improvisation ideas, exercises and concepts. http://frankbriggs.com

The son of a trumpeter in a Dixieland band, the virtuosic keyboardist Chick Corea is revered as one of the principal alchemists in the fusion of jazz with rock, funk, and Latin music. After recording his seminal 1968 album, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, he replaced Herbie Hancock as the piano chair in Miles Davis's band—the band that recorded such classic albums as Bitches Brew. Throughout his eclectic career, Corea has collaborated with vibraphonist Gary Burton and banjoist Bela Fleck, pioneered the use of the Fender Rhodes electric piano, and won 16 Grammys. In 1972 he founded the jazz fusion group Return to Forever, which he's steered through several lives—including Return to Forever IV, which recently concluded its 2011 World Tour. Here, Corea shares the original sheet music for "Spain," a composition for the group's 1972 sophomore album, Light as a Feather.