Doubles are an excellent rudiment to learn around the kit. Lots of great fills to learn.
I try to work on my doubles everyday,routine goes like this at 60bpm
10 minutes on the pad i do a measure of 16th note followed by a measure of 32nd notes then 10 minutes of the same thing on a pillow
10 minutes on the pad i do the same measure of 16th note for 30 seconds followed by 32nd notes for 30 seconds then 10 minutes same thing on a pillow
the day my doubles sound like smooth clean singles is definitely a day of celebration.
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i love practicing my doubles. I could do double stroke rolls and paradiddles all day long
Currently my project is fitting doubles and paradiddles into up-tempo Petty songs-do them too slow and they may as well be single strokes.
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Here's what I've been doing. The ideal is to replace a 16th note with a double then you just move the double around. The sticking would look this.
RRLRL RRLRL RRLRL RRLRL
RLLRL RLLRL RLLRL RLLRL
RLRRL RLRRL RLRRL RLRRL
RLRLL RLRLL RLRLL RLRLL
I don't really try to count the 32nd note to myself I'm just still counting 16 notes but squeezing that double in there lol.
Last edited by wired; 06-24-2015 at 04:15 AM.
Yeah if you were to replace two 16th notes with doubles then I suppose you are actually playing inverted 6 stroke rolls.
Other things I've been playing are the Bo Diddley 3/2 clave in 16th notes it has some fun accents. and the Wipeout Diddles. I tried to load some photos on music on photo bucket but it's not displaying right. but the links will take you there.
http://www.learndrumsnow.com/techniq...dley-drum-beat
http://http://joethedrummer.com/wipeoutdiddles-sticking-exercise/
I've been practicing this for over a year now, my mentor gave it to me. I do it as a warmup, one time one the snare, then do the accents on the toms (LH=HT TH=FT), alternate them 3 times so its played a total of 6 times. I do 1/4s on the BD and 2&4 with the LF. I'd say i have it about 80% memorized and I'm proud of my doubles, use them as ghosts often now (im in my 4th year playing, so i'd say that a bit ahead of the game).
Because I can measure my accuracy on my computer, and because my mentor told me to make the dynamics more extreme, I don't play it super fast (I'm up to 142 bpm), I also do the paradiddlediddle the same way described above for doubles.
I think with rudiments, its not a bad idea to try to double up the practice if possible, they are easy to memorize so you can addother challenges to them easily (but not easily played.
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wow thanks alot i will definitely print this music out and try to internalize it and 142bpm is fast especially if played clean. i been playing over 2 years now and recently switched teachers and he introduced me to the importance of learning rudiments so i feel like i wasted two years not focusing on them so i try practicing rudiments everyday and i love doubles so i really want to improve.
Ghosting is something i want to master for sure, so dynamic and makes the sound so much more fun. are you familiar with the purdie shuffle?
One thing I did long ago when I was taking lessons and practicing double stroke rolls was, I'd start out with a metronome and play at, for example, 60 BPM. Then, I would up that to 65 BPM, and keep increasing the tempo until I couldn't play them properly. Then I would go back to where I could play them properly and practice.... a lot. Once I had a certain tempo down, I would push myself to play a little faster.
Hope that made sense.
I love singles, doubles, and paradiddles. I use them a lot in my vids including 1 that is virtually all doubles.
At the same time, I never went nuts in trying to perfect them. Nobody will ever have a "perfect" double stroke roll or paradiddle because they would sound like a fast single stroke roll with accents.
Of course you want them smooth but past that, if you want the "perfect" double stroke roll, you might as well work on a fast single stroke roll because that's what the doubles would sound like.
I just printed out rolling in rhythm. That is going to be very good to practice.
Keep drumming
Gregg
What I find in my doubles is that the left hand just doesn't feel as comfortable as the right. I'm right handed so the left is my weakhand. But I would imagine that you will find the key to getting cleaner with your doubles or any rudiments for that matter is improving and strengthening the weak hand.
I also bought these big jumbo sticks just for the practice pad but they made my wrist hurt so I stop using them. They helped but I wouldn't over do it.
Don't know your level, but def try it the way I do it, with your feet involved as well (I'm low intermediate, so mid-high beginner should manage it at slow tempos as well).
If you're a good drummer, try BD on 1, +3, +1 ect...with the HH on 2 and 4, its got a nice feel. I've also tried playing the normal hits on the toms, and the accents on the snare, but my brain started to burn, 6 became 9, mountains fell into the sea and I'm pretty sure Mitch Mitchell's ghost told me to stop ruining Jimi's songs when i play along...
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