Pattern barf: what to do with a paradiddle

This is what I do in the mornings: I have my coffee, put on some music, and see people are talking about on line, related to the drums. And then I get irritated, varyingly, and write some things for the site. It’s a part of my method, anyway.

In this instance someone was wondering if a certain drumming YouTube account had made videos telling them what to do with some rudiments yet. To which my response is HERE, I’ll save you a few dozen hours of watching videos.

You can do the same types of things with any other rudiment. Once you know them as possibilities, it becomes the way you think, so you immediately have ideas for how to practice, in the context you’re doing it. Some will come up when you’re working on your funk stuff, others when you’re hitting a practice pad, and others when you’re working on soloing in a jazz setting.

And seeing all this at once doesn’t mean you’re supposed to be thinking about it all at once. This gets the one-word label PARADIDDLES, but each of these things is a distinct idea that will take time to develop on its own, in connection with the style area you’re developing— jazz, funk, general snare drum technique, etc.

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