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 […]
Category: six stroke rolls
More short rolls and drags
Following up the page from the other day, here are some more short open roll and drag combinations. I’ve also rewritten the other page in normal notation— download that and compare it with the first […]
Six stroke roll exploiter
Another very dense page of stuff based on the Ultimate Paradiddle Builder page, and companion to my paradiddle-diddle exploiter page. I’m getting very grandiose in how I name crap. It’s fun, try it sometime. Between […]
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 […]
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, […]
More six stroke rolls
Lots of snare drum stuff right now. Here are some more six stroke roll combinations, going a couple of steps beyond the last batch. Some patterns are helper patterns for the others, so watch out […]
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 […]
Six stroke roll combinations
No big deal, just a page of six stroke roll combinations and phrases, in 16th notes and 16th triplets. I call them that under duress, it just happens to be the common name for this […]
Chaffee-esque right hand lead stickings
Lots of quasi-Chaffee activity lately, getting into a sticking system derived from his— as covered in his books Odd Time Stickings and Patterns vol. 2 – Stickings. Similar to his linear system, his sticking system […]
Paradiddle-diddle game
Everybody Good Knows The Same Stuff, Part 1000: Another handout from a clinic Russ Tincher at UC Berkeley in 1989— I confirmed that’s where it was from. Here he shows how to interpret triplets with […]
Three Camps for drumset – RLL/RRL/six stroke – 03
UPDATE: I noticed a typo in the “syncopated / starting on 2” version, plus I changed the sticking on the A measures. Notes on the updates further down… Settle in, kids, we’re going to be […]