Matt’s Paradiddle Thing has been so useful to me, that I decided to apply the same methodology to double paradiddles. Don’t be put off by the amount of ink on the page- the system is straightforward enough once you’re familiar with it. Apply the same sequences as with MPT.
I wrote this up for myself, maybe you’ll use it, too. These are the 6/8 linear versions of the double paradiddle and paradiddle-diddle inversions page, written for snare drum and bass drum— that’s easier for […]
Kind of a big one. Blow this up and make a poster out of it… actually I should probably do that, and sell it along with my other merch… …BUT these are some things to […]
Another entry in our “Rudimental Reed” series, in which we outline some methods for apply rudiments to the long exercises in Ted Reed’s Syncopation, this time using paradiddles. Here’s that well-known opening line from the […]