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6 Steps to An Awesome Paradiddle Groove

6 Steps to An Awesome Paradiddle Groove Learn how to play an awesome inverted paradiddle groove.This drum lesson walks you through 6 steps to an awesome paradiddle groove. Here we will break down the second paradiddle inversion.Paradiddles are such great rudiments because they open so many creative doors for beats and fills. And when we then start exploring the inversions of the paradiddles it creates masses of ideas in your drumming vocabulary.In this drum lesson we are going to create a really fun and complicated sounding drum beat. But we will learn it in six easy steps so that you…

6 Steps To The Funkiest Paradiddle

6 Steps To The Funkiest Paradiddle Learn how to play funky paradiddles in six easy steps.Welcome to the 6 Steps To The Funkiest Paradiddle drum lesson! The paradiddle is one of our core rudiments but it's also one of the easiest to turn into something super funky.If you've never played the paradiddle before, this drum lessons walks you though each step. If you are familiar with it, then I hope that this drum lesson gives you some new ideas or takes it to the next level.Go slow on each step and you will be a funk God before you know…

Mixed Up Paradiddle Grooves

Mixed Up Paradiddle Grooves Learn how to play funky paradiddle based drum beats This Is The Mixed Up Paradiddle Grooves Drum Lesson Welcome to the mixed up paradiddle grooves drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play funky paradiddle based patterns. These grooves are based on the standard paradiddle and the inverted paradiddles. You don't need to know these before you watch this drum lesson but it does give you a much more solid foundation.In this drum lesson we take elements of the different versions of the paradiddle and stitch them together to create something unique. We learn each…

Thirteen Eight Paradiddle Workout

Thirteen Eight Paradiddle Workout Thirteen Eight Paradiddle Workout. This drum lesson tests your paradiddle variations to the limit culminating with an odd time phrasing idea. This Is The Thirteen Eight Paradiddle Workout Welcome to the thirteen eight paradiddle workout. Here we will learn how to play a complex paradiddle based pattern in odd time.You might wonder why you will ever need a paradiddle phrasing in thirteen eight. Well...........you probably won't.But actually this is just an exercise where we combine different paradiddle variations to help develop your command of these common rudiments. And it just so happens that it lasts for…

Paradiddles Between Right Hand And Right Foot

Paradiddles Between Right Hand And Right Foot Learn how to play fun rudiment drum beats using paradiddles This Is The Paradiddles Between Right Hand And Right Foot Drum Lesson Welcome to the paradiddles between right hand and right foot drum lesson.Here we are taking common paradiddle rudiments and playing them with different limbs. We then orchestrate them in different ways to create some fresh and interesting rudiment drum beats.these exercises will open up your possibilities with rudiments and show you new ways to apply them to music. And it is also a difficult four limb independence challenge as well!Scroll down…

Seven Eight Paradiddle Funk Drum Lesson

Seven Eight Paradiddle Funk Drum Lesson Learn how to play a cool paradiddle based odd time drum beat This Is The Seven Eight Paradiddle Funk Drum Lesson This seven eight paradiddle funk drum lesson sounds really complicated and exciting but when we break it down it's actually really easy. In fact I love taking rudiments and mixing them up to create longer, interesting patterns.We're simply going to combine two paradiddle rudiments to make something awesome. Here we are using the paradiddle and the paradiddlediddle. So first we'll break those down and orchestrate them around the drum kit.Next we will combine…

Paradiddlediddle funk beats

Paradiddlediddle Funk Beats Learn how to use the paradiddlediddle rudiment to play funk This Is The Paradiddlediddle Funk Beats Lesson Welcome to the paradiddlediddle funk beats drum lesson. Here we will learn how to play funk drum beats using a classic rudiment.Like all rudiments, the paradiddlediddle is very simple and it is based upon the standard paradiddle which is played with the sticking pattern:R L R R L R L LWe simply need to add an extra diddle (double) at the end of each four notes so the paradiddlediddle becomes:R L R R L LSo it is a six note…

Sexy Sextuplet Paradiddles

Sexy Sextuplet Paradiddles Learn how to play a creative drum fill using the paradiddle This Is The Sexy Sextuplet Paradiddles Drum Lesson Welcome to the sexy sextuplet paradiddles drum lesson. This is a really fun paradiddle drum fill with a twist because we dip a toe into implied metric modulation which might deceive the listener into thinking we've changed tempo when actually we're just playing a four note phrasing over sextuplets.Sound confusing? Well hopefully 🤞 this video will break it down so that it makes sense.Once we understand these concepts we can use them in our fills and drum beats…

Paradiddle Inversion Groove Challenge Course

Paradiddle Inversion Independence Challenge Develop your four limb independence with this paradiddle challenge This Is The Paradiddle Inversion Independence Challenge Course Welcome to the paradiddle inversion independence challenge course. Here we will learn a series of paradiddle inversion exercises with foot ostinatos. An ostinato is simply a repeating pattern and we develop three foot ostinatos ranging from easier to really hard. But you can work your way up slowly. Over the top of this ostinato we will learn to play a range of paradiddles and inversions so your hands become very free. But this isn't just an exercise. These actually…

Learn Drum Rudiments

Learn the Essential Drum Rudiments Rudiments are essential WITHOUT RUDIMENTS you are missing the fundamental building blocks of drumming. Whether you like it or not we all need rudiments. As a drummer you cannot escape them. If students that are adamant that they don't won't to get involved with 'proper' learning of the drums, they must still understand that they will inevitably use rudiments every time they sit at the drums. Take a very basic snare roll that Travis Barker plays at high speeds in a Blink 182 song. Any drummer that wants to learn that has to learn to…