00:04Hey everybody, it's Guy Gelso. Welcome to my drum room and today we're going to do a little pad work
00:08on a real common subject, paradiddles. We've all heard of them. They're such a great rudiment
00:14because they can be used in so many ways, but I'm going to show you a little bit different slant
00:18on
00:18it. You know, singles and doubles make up 99% of what we do on the set and the paradiddle
00:24is just
00:25the concept of two singles, a right and left, or a left and a right, and a double, right, right,
00:31or
00:31left, left, put together in a four note group. Now the double is just used to turn your hands around
00:36so your sticking starts from the other side, and if we play around with that idea, we can come up
00:41with other paradiddle versions and then start moving that accent around to create some really
00:47cool syncopated patterns against the quarter note pulse. So let's take a standard paradiddle first
00:52of right, left, right, right, left, right, left, left played as sixteenth notes, accent on the
00:59one, two, three, four, and remember it's just two singles followed by a double. So here it
01:04is slowly. Right, left, right, right, left, right, left, left, right, left, right, left, right,
01:14left, right, left, right, left, left. Now I'll do it at 75 beats a minute on a click. If I
01:35start that
01:36paradiddle from the double, right, right, left, right, followed by left, left, right, left, a double
01:42followed by two singles, that's called a reverse paradiddle. And you try accenting that one on
01:46the upbeat or the and like this. Right, right, left, right, left, left, left, right, left, right,
01:54right, right, left, left, left, left, right, left, right, right, right, left, right, left, left, right,
01:59right. Okay, here it is with the click. Great stuff. Now, here's another one called the inverted
02:19paradiddle. The sticking is right, left, left, right, followed by left, right, right, left. That
02:25puts the double in the middle with a single note at the beginning and a single note at
02:29the end. And if we accent the fourth note in that group or the one E and uh, you get
02:36this.
02:38Right, left, left, right, left, right, right, right, left, right, left, right, left, right,
02:44left, right, right, left, right, left, left, right, left, right, left, right, right, left. Now
02:48with the click.
03:02And you can hear the accent syncopating against that quarter note pulse. So here's one more.
03:09Play right, left, right, left, followed by left, right, left, right. Four singles followed by four
03:17singles, but starting with the opposite side. Now that puts the double in between the four note groups,
03:22and that's called an outward paradiddle. Try accenting that one on the second note or the E, one E and
03:29uh.
03:32Right, left, right, left, left, right, left, right, right, left, right, left, left, right, left, right,
03:38right, right, left, right, left, left, left, right, left, right, left, right. With the click.
03:56So there you have four basic paradiddle versions, standard, reversed, inverted, and outward,
04:02and ways to move that accent around to the one, to the E, to the and, to the duh. Try
04:07playing them in
04:07a series. Go from the standard to the reversed or the standard to the outward, then to the reverse,
04:14and then to the inverted. The points get comfortable with these sticking patterns and start moving them
04:19to the drum set as fills. Or try playing them between the high hat and the snare drum with a
04:24quarter note
04:24pulse on the bass drum. Try reversing them, starting from the left side. It's real easy to do open
04:30handed playing that way with paradiddles. Simply think of them as a four note group of singles and
04:35doubles, and they're easy to remember. It's great stuff for sticking flow, independence, and syncopation. Now,
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04:53Thanks for watching very much, and I'll see you on the next one. Bye-bye.
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