Your practice routine is impressive.
I'm working on a bottle of scotch.
I am still working on my paradiddles. Using my metronome I start out at 130bpm and practice with the click ten times and then I double up on them. I do that for five min. and then I add five bpm and repeat it until I can't go any faster. I want to also work on paradiddles around the kit. What do you all think?
Keep drumming
Gregg
Your practice routine is impressive.
I'm working on a bottle of scotch.
Sounds like a good approach. But instead of just doing them for set amount of time, I would do them until you no longer struggle at that tempo.
As far as putting them around the kit, I have no special advice. Just take what you've been doing on once surface and start moving notes around to different drums. Simple as that.
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Now replace every right hand stroke with a right foot. So you will have a left hand right foot only combo, then see if that takes you someplace.
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I work on paradiddles every day. Sometimes I speed up the metronome like you do. Mostly I just relax and play various rudiments, paradiddles, doubles whatever. I just find it relaxing.
I made one of my students play paradiddles for 30 minutes straight yesterday lol
I work on paradiddlediddles aroung the kit a lot.
I take off the snares and go with right hand lead:
sn-tm-sn-sn-tm-tm - tm-sn-tm-tm-sn-sn - tm-fl-tm-tm-fl-fl - fl-tm-fl-fl-tm-tm
Often I'll add kick on every other hit, and then hhat on every other kick. I'll play them to a metronome as eighth notes to a quarter click. Last friday I got to 265.
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Working on your rudiments is never time wasted.
The paradiddle is my favorite rudiment!
Take care and seeya!
Jim
One of my go-to grooves is a single paradiddle between kick and left hand with the right hand playing accents on hats or bell of the ride. Really fun once you get the feel for it.
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I practice my paradiddles at 110 bpm and i play a measure with the down beat accented and then another measure with the + a accented
I think it goes without saying that paraddidles are extremely important, given how versatile they are to any drumming application.
When I was on my HS drumline, I wrote a few exercises utilizing paradiddles and variations of them, and they seemed to help a lot then. Now, since I graduated over 10 years ago, I haven't really played them since, haha.
They used the original sticking (RLRR LRLL), and variations like RRLR LLRL and RLLR LRRL.
Another exercise I did was playing a measure of 16th note paradiddles, and then a measure of paradiddles in triplets, but keeping the same sticking and accents:
RLRR LRLL RLRR LRLL | RLRR LRLL RLRR LRLL RLRR LRLL | x
___________________ \__6___/\__6__/\__6__/\__6__/
And of course, using the sticking variations above as well.
I'm not gonna sit here and claim credit that anything like this ever existed before, because I'm certain it did. But regardless, I wrote these to improve my playing back when I was marching, and it helped a lot.
Yeah u are right on that axis but what about combing it with the double pedalling...it'll sound amazingly awesome then split it round the whole drumset still using ur double pedalling and also releasing ur highhat on daily bases.
Normally i do rehearse everyday combination of rudiments together with double kicking and hi-hat control,then also to play faster.its fun to me knowing and practising my rudiments and also practise applying em to drumbeats its just so awesome.
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