Exceptionally granular page of exercises developing the pataflafla, a drag variant, and Steve Gadd’s pataflafla-ed 6 stroke roll— you can hear that in his solo on the Tom Scott record here. Usually I would walk through these steps verbally with students, when helping them with something hard, here I’ve written them all out.
I don’t think I’ve ever played a pataflafla in music, but I practice them all the time. It’s a nice muscular rudiment, with good structure for developing technique.
Mostly you burn through these, pausing to work on the ones where there’s some obvious weakness. I’ll be hanging out in the Steve Gadd section quite a bit, I’ve never learned to do those with any conistency. At the bottom is an exercise with each of the forms of these things in continuous rhythm— you can play that straight through, playing each measure 1-4 times.
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