Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Max Roach: Paradiddles with the melody as accents

I recently saw a great article on cruise ship drummer about different uses of the ever popular paradiddle.  In the spirit of collegial cooperation I thought I would add my approach to paradiddles into the mix.  

Max Exercise #3 Full

Here is a video of me playing the exercise:


And here is what it sounds like a bit faster:



2 comments:


  1. The paradiddle can be used to form a funky linear drum groove. Play

    your right hand on your hi hat and keep the left hand on the snare

    drum (maintaining the accent positions as written above). If you are

    accenting the notes correctly you should hear a funky groove. Take

    the initiative to add some bass drum patterns and experiment with

    this highly versatile rudiment.

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  2. Thanks for your useful information

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