Man that takes me back to my lessons. Our teacher used to give me loads of stick about timing, he really used to beat it into us. But in the end, you can’t beat practice!
This vid helped me understand the single paradiddle, finally, and how to pick up speed. Just wasn't getting how to apply it faster. Saving for future reference!
Vincent Mendoza , train sound, hm because when it was first used it was inspired by train sounds maybe, like a lot of the blues rhythms as the musicians rode trains and composed their music.
@Jules Marecaux Good question! The truth is, both. The goal when playing a fast double stroke is to clearly articulate both strokes. So yes, you are manipulating the rebound of the stick to accelerate the speed of the RR and LL, but balancing the pressure you apply so that the strokes don't "mush" into the head and become unclear. The basic idea is, never practice faster than your fastest relaxed, controlled speed. Clear and relaxed will always yield faster results than forcing it, as counter-intuitive as that might be. Have fun!
Interesting to watch. Great tutorial video. It also makes me start singing "Come ride the little train that is rolling down the tracks to the Junction! Petticoat Junction!" :-D
I have just started the highlights of the first stroke and if you can tam adjust the other to the proper tap it makes a difference to the pronunciation
I’m a fossilized guitar player and I came here to see if my recall of the paradiddle was correct. As a child I used to listen to one one the worlds greatest drum corps when they practiced and just picked up stuff like flams and paradiddles along the way.
I've been practicing this via the Vic Firth rudiment videos on their RUclips. I'm pretty comfortable up through, say, the middle of "platinum" speed. And I fall apart at diamond speed.
It helps to practice rudiments and paradiddles on a pillow so you can get the feel with the bounce so it is your wrist learning it instead of your fingers.
Is that a practice pad on top of your snare? I kind of like the sound and am always looking for ways to bring the volume down. Also, great lesson! thanks.
Very good lesson thanks! There is a new collection of books with very modern approaches in relation to the movement patterns of this class and their combinations, paradiddles, palindromes, two-voice counterpoints etc in various metrics, They are from the author Ciro Plateroti. The colecction its called "The book of movements", t will blow your brain, I only have the 4th but there are approximatel y 7 or 8 volumes! I recommend them to you who handle very well this type of patterns that have their degree of difficulty.
It's both an exercise and a musical tool. They really come to life when you split the hands up on different drums/cymbals or even put the right hand part on the bass drum and the left hand part on the snare drum. Examples of paradiddles used in popular music are beats like Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin, Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana, Can I Kick It by A Tribe Called Quest, Hand of Doom by Black Sabbath and Sugar We're Going Down by Fall Out Boy. You'll hear paradiddles everywhere but those are examples off the top of my head from songs students are working on. Paradiddles are used in jazz, rock, hip-hop, funk, Latin music... everywhere! They’re a great source of ideas.
@@randyreed1284 That can be said about any rudiment. The primary purpose of the paradiddle is to combine singles and doubles, which enables you to change which hand is leading when playing rolls.
Is the Par-A-DID-DLE spacing equal to the spacing of 1-E-AND-A? I've viewed several paradiddle lessons, but none of the lessons have made this point extremely clear to me. I practice this rudiment nearly every day, and my space between the diddle seems much shorter than the space between my para.
+art hernandez Hey Art, Yes the rhythm is spaced evenly like that of the 16th notes you are counting as 1-e-&-a. Keep in mind that while that is the starting point for practicing the paradiddle, the usefulness of rudiments comes in the flexibility of their rhythmic placement and phrasing. Bend them, break them and split them up on the drums. Try accenting the doubles, the singles, etc. A common application is to play the right hand part on the bass drum and left hand part on the snare drum while maintaining 8th notes on the hihat. You can find a lesson on this application here: ruclips.net/p/PLA9A4EFC87640363A Enjoy!
i'm a pianist and i don't even own a drum kit, i was thinking of buying drumsticks to practice these rudiments and paradiddles, could that help with keeping rhythm?
I have a comment about the 1st stroke...I see that in slow tempo, the 1st stroke is made with an up stroke, (down-up all in one) but when it goes fast, that first stroke changes into down and it stays down to continue with 2 full strokes and then the last one as an up stroke. Personally, I think it would be better to show in slow tempo the same motion as in fast tempo. It might be confusing for beginers to show one movement and later on to change the motion...
+juanmartinezcortes Hey Juan, Thanks for the observation. The way I think of it is like a basketball bouncing. When it bounces very slowly, it bounces very high, when it bounces faster, it bounces low, closer to the ground. Since the first single stroke is an accent, it is like one big bounce, followed by the doubles as smaller faster bounces. The rhythm of each hand individually creates a pattern with one big bounce and two smaller bounces as if you were dropping a ball. When I think of it that way, it helps me follow the natural rebound pattern of the drum stick in the paradiddle. Hopefully that helps. Have fun!
First I'm a big fan of your teaching and very thankful for sharing your drumming experience with us. Second abt that single paradiddle i'm new to rudiments but shouldn't be the first accented note a downstroke and the second note an up stroke?
Hey rundown306, Good question! Yes, you can practice that way. The strokes can be analyzed with different approaches. Notice that if you play the first accent as a down stroke, you might prevent the stick from rebounding, absorb the shock of the rebound and waste the energy of the stick coming back up, preparing for the next stroke. The second stroke does turn into an up stroke at speed, but focusing on it that way at a slow tempo, when learning to allow the first stroke to rebound is difficult for beginners. There are different approaches to hand technique and rudiments. Some loose, some tight and everything in between. To go in to that level of depth, I would recommend working with a few different teachers and finding the approach that works best for you, or with a flexible teacher that will show you different approaches. The benefit is that they can watch you play and help you choose an approach that comes naturally. Thanks for the comment!
***** Thanks for your feedback! Very helpful! Got another question but off topic, do you think playing 4 on the floor (feathering the bass drum) even in a bebop tune is a necessity? I really like how it feels and how it locks with the upright but it takes away all the creativity/independence in comping!
rundown306 The general "rule" in bebop is to leave the bass drum free for comping, so the answer would be no. But it would be silly to say jazz is about rules. Try feeling the difference it makes when you add it or take it away, and then use it as a tool in your bag of tricks. Historically, Bop drummers use the bass drum both ways. Just be sensitive to the effect it has on the band and your own playing.
@@Bob-nu3xe wow 60 years on the kit that is amazing. I just started 2 years ago at age 63 I’ve got a lot of practice to catch up. Lol wish I would have started in my teens but better late than never right. So are rudiments more for developing hand corodination
Are you using the speed of your wrist as it goes faster or are you using the rebound of the stick? In other words, are you using a drumroll or pure wrist action?
First off, you really don’t need to play accents above your shoulder. Second, by letting the accented note freely rebound, you’re playing another accent, not a tap
Don't be a bitch now, does that make you feel powerful? Because it just makes you an arse. Of course he's not going to do that whilst playing normally. He's doing it to emphasise the motion for easier grasp of it for the people he's trying to teach.
Definitely! You can practice on anything! The bottom of a shoe, a basketball, a notebook is great, even a piece of wood or metal. Cymbals are metal... and woodblocks are wood, etc. The sticks themselves have enough flexibility to rebound off any hard surface.
Good video....but try to use the proper grip as you can lose tempo easily due to fingerings of the stick while it bounces of contact and use your wrist..*helps improve speed and coordination of both hands and upward movements of different strokes
Maybe don't let the stick rebound so high after your accent because the other 3 notes should be ghosted. Your 3rd note is too loud and gives it a wierd lope.
You should've really shown off at the end! But yeah, this is horrible, I had to look this up to show my girlfriend how bad my sticking has become after 4 years of not having a set in front of me, even though I used to be kind of a beast lol
Why do you use the full stroke to accent the frist stroke?? in this way the frist of the two double has an accent, and honestly if we talk about the paradiddle n.1 only the frist stroke has an accent using the down stroke instead of the full stroke.
Speed will come with time. Just practice at your fastest relaxed controlled speed. Try to find a way to make it fun, like applying the rudiment on the drum kit on two different drums, or playing it on your desk while you’re supposed to be working.
Man that takes me back to my lessons. Our teacher used to give me loads of stick about timing, he really used to beat it into us. But in the end, you can’t beat practice!
I’m a starter percussionists in 6th grade this helped me a lot with speed thx!!
Morgan Payne I learned this last year from my private lesson teacher and I’m in 6th now and my band teacher is making percussion watch this haha
Lol lucky you 😂🥁
Morgan Payne same!
Nice!
Same😅
This vid helped me understand the single paradiddle, finally, and how to pick up speed. Just wasn't getting how to apply it faster. Saving for future reference!
I have watched a lot of videos about paradiddles, but I did not understand what I was trying to do until I watched your video. Thank you very much!!
A perfect two minute introduction to the paradiddle. Thank you.
Who else thought it sounded like a train? 😂
It wasn't the first thing that came to mind, but now that you mention it, it does!
Choo choo 😊
Yeah as he started to go faster it started to sound uneven
Mr. Jefferson's choo choo train😆
Vincent Mendoza , train sound, hm because when it was first used it was inspired by train sounds maybe, like a lot of the blues rhythms as the musicians rode trains and composed their music.
Watchn u hold the sticks up on the accent has really helped get the diddle sounding better. Never had lessons and this method makes sense. Thanks👍
And do for straight half hour. Increase speed as your master slower speed.
1:28 choo Choo here comes the train lol
@Jules Marecaux Good question! The truth is, both. The goal when playing a fast double stroke is to clearly articulate both strokes. So yes, you are manipulating the rebound of the stick to accelerate the speed of the RR and LL, but balancing the pressure you apply so that the strokes don't "mush" into the head and become unclear. The basic idea is, never practice faster than your fastest relaxed, controlled speed. Clear and relaxed will always yield faster results than forcing it, as counter-intuitive as that might be. Have fun!
Interesting to watch. Great tutorial video. It also makes me start singing "Come ride the little train that is rolling down the tracks to the Junction! Petticoat Junction!" :-D
I have just started the highlights of the first stroke and if you can tam adjust the other to the proper tap it makes a difference to the pronunciation
Thanks Neil I always come back to your lessons.
Clear and concise. I like it!
Thanks! Keeping it simple.
U helped my life....
Thanks a lot.... Couldn't afford to lose..
Yeah..THIS is the kind of videos we need ..no bs.👍🥁
I’m a fossilized guitar player and I came here to see if my recall of the paradiddle was correct. As a child I used to listen to one one the worlds greatest drum corps when they practiced and just picked up stuff like flams and paradiddles along the way.
2023 and still working this amazing video 🤘
It’s too much your going to fry my brain
Thanks for this video helped me a lot
Great visual, see everything close……I note the double strokes are lower than the first. Nothing like Evan Real Feel formally HQ pad
Great ! Fluid & Flowing ....as it should be
I've been practicing this via the Vic Firth rudiment videos on their RUclips. I'm pretty comfortable up through, say, the middle of "platinum" speed. And I fall apart at diamond speed.
Thanks for the vid , you made it look so simple... Can't wait to give it a go!
Thanks for posting this
Good demonstration 🥁🥁🥁
That was intense...bravo..
This could’ve easily been turned into an ocean man meme
NIce job. Thank you for sharing.
This was perfect short and sweet!! Awesome!!
you just saved me from a some error i was playing...thanks you sir !
It helps to practice rudiments and paradiddles on a pillow so you can get the feel with the bounce so it is your wrist learning it instead of your fingers.
john cruz you could injure by playing on a pillow by muscling too much. Playing on carpet is better, since it gives just a bit of rebound
I feel like i instinctually need to learn this..
Is that a practice pad on top of your snare? I kind of like the sound and am always looking for ways to bring the volume down. Also, great lesson! thanks.
Yes it is! I don’t think I would use a practice pad on the snare drum in a performance situation but it works great for this purpose.
Thank you so much for this video. Helped me to really understand what to do.
Dude youre a machine! Thanks for the video!
Very good lesson thanks! There is a new collection of books with very modern
approaches in relation to the movement patterns of this class and their combinations,
paradiddles, palindromes, two-voice counterpoints etc in various metrics,
They are from the author Ciro Plateroti. The colecction its called "The book of movements",
t will blow your brain, I only have the 4th but there are approximatel y 7 or 8 volumes!
I recommend them to you who handle very well this type of patterns that have their degree of difficulty.
Wow, this is some cool thing... Like it so much!
I want to play drums but I don't really know anything about them what is the purpose of a paradiddle? Is it a speed/dexterity exercise?
It's both an exercise and a musical tool. They really come to life when you split the hands up on different drums/cymbals or even put the right hand part on the bass drum and the left hand part on the snare drum. Examples of paradiddles used in popular music are beats like Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin, Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana, Can I Kick It by A Tribe Called Quest, Hand of Doom by Black Sabbath and Sugar We're Going Down by Fall Out Boy. You'll hear paradiddles everywhere but those are examples off the top of my head from songs students are working on. Paradiddles are used in jazz, rock, hip-hop, funk, Latin music... everywhere! They’re a great source of ideas.
It's a way to develop a good flow as you alternate between single-stroke rolls and double-stroke rolls.
The main purpose of a paradise is to show you finesse and proper sticking and accenting and to show you the proper way to actually hit a drum
@@randyreed1284 That can be said about any rudiment. The primary purpose of the paradiddle is to combine singles and doubles, which enables you to change which hand is leading when playing rolls.
‘Do you burry me when I’m gone.. do you teach me while I’m here....’ Metallica- I Disappear
Choo choo..see the train coming down the track listen my babies coming back 🚂
Great job☀
Oh yessss 😊 thank you
Thank you
Love this! Thanks! I will be there one day
Nice dude. Question when the tempo gets high. Do you utilize double stroke rolls?
It’s a paradiddle start to finish... there are doubles in the paradiddle. :)
Im in band and our teacher showed us this
the techinique it's easy to remember, but when I try to go faster it's very complicated to keep on track with the order of hits
Is the Par-A-DID-DLE spacing equal to the spacing of 1-E-AND-A?
I've viewed several paradiddle lessons, but none of the lessons have made this point extremely clear to me.
I practice this rudiment nearly every day, and my space between the diddle seems much shorter than the space between my para.
+art hernandez Hey Art, Yes the rhythm is spaced evenly like that of the 16th notes you are counting as 1-e-&-a. Keep in mind that while that is the starting point for practicing the paradiddle, the usefulness of rudiments comes in the flexibility of their rhythmic placement and phrasing. Bend them, break them and split them up on the drums. Try accenting the doubles, the singles, etc. A common application is to play the right hand part on the bass drum and left hand part on the snare drum while maintaining 8th notes on the hihat. You can find a lesson on this application here: ruclips.net/p/PLA9A4EFC87640363A Enjoy!
i'm a pianist and i don't even own a drum kit, i was thinking of buying drumsticks to practice these rudiments and paradiddles, could that help with keeping rhythm?
I have a comment about the 1st stroke...I see that in slow tempo, the 1st stroke is made with an up stroke, (down-up all in one) but when it goes fast, that first stroke changes into down and it stays down to continue with 2 full strokes and then the last one as an up stroke. Personally, I think it would be better to show in slow tempo the same motion as in fast tempo. It might be confusing for beginers to show one movement and later on to change the motion...
+juanmartinezcortes Hey Juan, Thanks for the observation. The way I think of it is like a basketball bouncing. When it bounces very slowly, it bounces very high, when it bounces faster, it bounces low, closer to the ground. Since the first single stroke is an accent, it is like one big bounce, followed by the doubles as smaller faster bounces. The rhythm of each hand individually creates a pattern with one big bounce and two smaller bounces as if you were dropping a ball. When I think of it that way, it helps me follow the natural rebound pattern of the drum stick in the paradiddle. Hopefully that helps. Have fun!
Now do paradiddles with traditional grip! I can!
I like to jam paradiddles on my wallet, keys, and phone so I know I’m ready to GTFO.
I should do it for my drum solo on my PDP!
First I'm a big fan of your teaching and very thankful for sharing your drumming experience with us. Second abt that single paradiddle i'm new to rudiments but shouldn't be the first accented note a downstroke and the second note an up stroke?
Hey rundown306, Good question! Yes, you can practice that way. The strokes can be analyzed with different approaches. Notice that if you play the first accent as a down stroke, you might prevent the stick from rebounding, absorb the shock of the rebound and waste the energy of the stick coming back up, preparing for the next stroke. The second stroke does turn into an up stroke at speed, but focusing on it that way at a slow tempo, when learning to allow the first stroke to rebound is difficult for beginners. There are different approaches to hand technique and rudiments. Some loose, some tight and everything in between. To go in to that level of depth, I would recommend working with a few different teachers and finding the approach that works best for you, or with a flexible teacher that will show you different approaches. The benefit is that they can watch you play and help you choose an approach that comes naturally. Thanks for the comment!
***** Thanks for your feedback! Very helpful! Got another question but off topic, do you think playing 4 on the floor (feathering the bass drum) even in a bebop tune is a necessity? I really like how it feels and how it locks with the upright but it takes away all the creativity/independence in comping!
rundown306 The general "rule" in bebop is to leave the bass drum free for comping, so the answer would be no. But it would be silly to say jazz is about rules. Try feeling the difference it makes when you add it or take it away, and then use it as a tool in your bag of tricks. Historically, Bop drummers use the bass drum both ways. Just be sensitive to the effect it has on the band and your own playing.
***** That's exactly how i felt about this subject, thanks again sir!
thank you very much for this!
not quite my tempo
I need help with this I don’t move very fast and I don’t know my left from my right
Go slow and say it out loud.
Jimmy concentrate on the single accent the doubles will fall into place 60 years of drumming 200 bpm is a cinch !!
@@Bob-nu3xe wow 60 years on the kit that is amazing. I just started 2 years ago at age 63 I’ve got a lot of practice to catch up. Lol wish I would have started in my teens but better late than never right. So are rudiments more for developing hand corodination
What snare drum is this? I mean the one under the practice pad.
Are you using the speed of your wrist as it goes faster or are you using the rebound of the stick? In other words, are you using a drumroll or pure wrist action?
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My neighbor at 3am:
Cool. I never could do this with speed, though I tried…
you are now entering... LIGHT SPEED
why the hand move up when you do 2 ghost notes ?
If your in percussion with me hi it’s Claire
Thank you sirr
chevere man lo voy ha practicar gracias por compartir
Buena suerte Eddie! Gracias por habernos acompañado.
god bless
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Perfecto! Bravo!
How many beats per minute?
So helpful
Dude you have nice hands. Not being creepy here, just saying they are muscular and not hairy.
First off, you really don’t need to play accents above your shoulder. Second, by letting the accented note freely rebound, you’re playing another accent, not a tap
Don't be a bitch now, does that make you feel powerful? Because it just makes you an arse. Of course he's not going to do that whilst playing normally. He's doing it to emphasise the motion for easier grasp of it for the people he's trying to teach.
@@samgreen8865 He's right though you douchebag. It's not asinine to suggest that proper technique should be used in a video tutorial.
You play those just like I can't.
lol thanks Bruce... it’s all a work in progress :)
Sounds like Darude - Sandstorm
I need to learn this and I don’t have a drum or drum set to play on so I use my note book cover is that ok ?
Definitely! You can practice on anything! The bottom of a shoe, a basketball, a notebook is great, even a piece of wood or metal. Cymbals are metal... and woodblocks are wood, etc. The sticks themselves have enough flexibility to rebound off any hard surface.
Niels Myrner cool I use my grandma mothers pots and pans and my drumsticks and note book in my room
If you don't have sticks try visualization. Just picture yourself playing. This helps a lot.
I agree
Good video....but try to use the proper grip as you can lose tempo easily due to fingerings of the stick while it bounces of contact and use your wrist..*helps improve speed and coordination of both hands and upward movements of different strokes
sound lika a 5stroke roll when played fast
helped! thanks!
I have it down for the most part, just need
to pick up on the speed a little and I will be set. (:
Thank you for the video!
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Maybe don't let the stick rebound so high after your accent because the other 3 notes should be ghosted. Your 3rd note is too loud and gives it a wierd lope.
What is the name of this instrument and how can I get this.
Practice pad.
I like this dude but he is a little to fast for me
You should've really shown off at the end! But yeah, this is horrible, I had to look this up to show my girlfriend how bad my sticking has become after 4 years of not having a set in front of me, even though I used to be kind of a beast lol
I typed in the code, it didn't work no extra lives...
RIGHT left right right
LEFT right left left
Seem to be like double stroke sound
real nice
Cool!!
R (ds) L (us) R (tap) R (tap)
L (ds) R (us) L (tap) L (tap)
ds = down stroke
us = up stroke
Tap = ghost note
I hit about the 1:15 mark and got lost lol
Looks easy but I am messed up with my pad here while watching.
Why do you use the full stroke to accent the frist stroke?? in this way the frist of the two double has an accent, and honestly if we talk about the paradiddle n.1 only the frist stroke has an accent using the down stroke instead of the full stroke.
Exactly right. There should be no rebound after the accented strokes. The diddles should be played with wrist strokes.
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Train Kept A Rollin/Aerosmith drum break.
maybe you got a improve yyour second motion, upstroke, cheers
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I can't seem to get the speed going at all 😖😧😔😔😔
Speed will come with time. Just practice at your fastest relaxed controlled speed. Try to find a way to make it fun, like applying the rudiment on the drum kit on two different drums, or playing it on your desk while you’re supposed to be working.