Some things to do with paradiddle-diddles. This started with this lesson— we were playing them with a slight crescendo, with an accent on the end. These aren’t necessarily great for speed, it doesn’t matter. There […]
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Rudimental Reed: two methods
A whole lot of snare drum happening right now. Here are two pretty basic things to do with Syncopation on the practice pad, first with short rolls on the short notes and paradiddles on the […]
Paradiddle-diddle phrases – 01
A page of paradiddle-diddle phrases, like some six stroke roll pages from last year. A couple of my students are eating these up. This is how you learn these things, you don’t just go down […]
Paradiddle-diddle exploiter
Heavy paradiddle unit happening here lately. Here are some ways of playing the paradiddle-diddle section of my Ultimate Paradiddle Builder on the drum set. The formula is pretty simple, you can easily apply this to […]
Burnout variations
Look, I didn’t call it burnout for nothing. Here are some other practice possibilities for the recent Paradiddle-diddle burnout and six stroke roll burnout pages, that came up in my own practicing. The point is […]
Six stroke roll burnout
Companion to the Paradiddle-diddle burnout page, with the same method and purpose, using the six stroke roll sticking: RLLRRL. These two pages, played this way, amount to a pretty complete vocabulary for this kind of […]
Paradiddle-diddle burnout
This has turned into an elegant little exercise. Paradiddle-diddles have long been bailout pattern of choice for fast tempos— the thing you play to rest your hand a little bit, and break things up. Bob […]
Ultimate paradiddle builder – 01
Ultimate until I need it in some other form. I already see some other things I could have included. Don’t believe everything you read. This expands on an approach taken in Mitchell Peters’s Rudimental Primer, […]
What to do with Stick Control
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 […]
Developing a Weckl lick – 01
Hot on the heels of the six stroke roll post, here is a related thing, a flashy fusion lick by Dave Weckl. I pulled it off of a Paquito d’Rivera album in about 1987, and […]
Bishopdiddles
Minor item, corralling some similar sticking ideas that have been floating around the site. I noticed that with paradiddle-like stickings, I like inverting them so the double is up front, right after the first accent. […]
Reed tweak: yet another uptempo method
Minor tweak to an ordinary right hand lead Reed system, making an approach to playing jazz at fast tempos. I’ve probably written something like this before, I can’t be bothered to check. This way has […]