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    Hey, I started playing drums about 4 years ago and only had a couple lessons and then had to stop and am just now picking things up again, ive been working on some basic rudiments but have a quick question about the paradiddle. Right now wihen i do the RR and LL s i just do two normally strokes i guess you would call it, but its causing me some trouble now that i can pick up speed. Anyways all my question is, is on the second hit should is just be a bounce? It seems when i get going pretty fast im kinda doing it anyways but i think if relearned it doing a bounce slowly i could probaly get them much cleaner and better, just wondering if this is the right thing to so.... thanks for the help =D i know im a nub nubby mc nub pants but....

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    ummmmmmmmmmmmmm.......................... What?

    Sorry i can't understand your question, but i'll do the best to answer it.

    A paradiddle is LRLL or RLRR. To do this simply hit the drum... I don't know what you mean when you say bounce, but i'm going to guess you mean buzz. So a buzz is when you press the head of the stick into the head, and there are no buzzes in a pardiddle

    Anyways, heres a really bad clip of a paradiddle

    http://www.oakgrove.lake.k12.il.us/t...Paradiddle.mov

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    yes Eons, you are right...this is a good idea....relearn it with doing bounces on the last 2 hits.....he's not talking about buzzes there mate

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    Alright thanks alot, yea sorry the wording was kinda bad

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    Your paradiddle strokes need to be all equally spaced notes. For example 16th notes. If you are practicing on a snare drum or a practice pad, it's easy to pick up speed, because of the "rebound", but the notes can get uneven. Try practicing on a pillow (that has no rebound) so your notes are even. Your paradiddle should sound exactly like your single stroke roll, unless to chose to accent a certain stroke.RLRRLRLL should sound like RLRLRLRL. Practice to get it perfect, forget about speed...that will come later.
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    Boo's right.. they have to be equally spaced. the whole point of paradiddles is to try and sound like your just going RLRLRLRL, not RLRRLRLL. i used to make accents with my paradiddles on the capitols like this:
    R l RR L r LL so every1 would know i was doing a paradiddle and my drum teacher taught me better so yeah
    make sure you dont do that
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    the easiest way to do the paradiddle is to first make ur hand as flexible as anything lol. and let the ll rr follow accordingly. thats all

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    Amen- forget about speed and just keep working on it..speed will come later

    I recomend a practice pad and some heavy sticks- then move to snare and use smaller sticks to perform

    i will post back somewhere about stick positioning somewhere else if ur interested

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    Thanks for all the helpful replies. I normally practice them on the floor or sometimes a pillow. But I guess i'll keep doing them how i've been doing it just every hit like a single stroke, which i think i've got that down pretty good. i've pretty much only been practicing them for the past 3 or 4 days for like 4 to 5 hours a day lol cause i wanted to get my speed better but ill just move with other things too and not worry about it so much. also i do my accents like this Rrll Lrll with the capitals letters representing the accents, thats right... right? Sorry i ramble alot in my post =D

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    i will post back somewhere about stick positioning somewhere else if ur interested[/QUOTE]

    .... please do

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    Disregard my previous statement, i was kind of out of it there.

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    i love parrididdles!! except i cant spell them! lol
    PRACTICE SAFE BANGING!!! play drums! My Pearl Session Kit

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    paradiddles... I'm a good speler.

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    Quote Originally Posted by drummer
    paradiddles... I'm a good speler.

    its speeler you moron!

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    That was the joke Lucid.

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    drummer i think lucid was joking too.. lol
    -Leslie (aka Lezzle..)

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    haha lezzle i think your right or lucid is just an ***!!! but eyah i don't know, was up?
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    no no...I was jokin man

    Sorry if im comin off as an a*s...my jokes arent good when texting because I cant present my tone in which i say them..so i end up lookin like a d*ck...my bad everyone

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    haha aight it's cool!!! yeah it hard not soundng like a a2s on chat stuff when your joking!!!
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    lol

    especially when your like me and your main humor is sarcasm lol

    Ill say something and then someone will be like...what? (wondering if im serious or not) lol

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    lol nice!!! but yeah i'm the same way!!! but my friends know me well enough to know that i am joking!!! haha!!!
    Live Life The Way You Want To Live It!!!

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    You don't have to be sarcastic to joke. I know some guys that do this and they really are a-holes. I mean this nicely, not in a bad way.
    Drummer Chicks Rule

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    shwing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alien
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    hahahaha, waynes world.... nice
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    Quote Originally Posted by drums drums drums
    You don't have to be sarcastic to joke. I know some guys that do this and they really are a-holes. I mean this nicely, not in a bad way.

    *sarcasm* of course not in the bad way...no no...didnt get that vibe at all
    nope..
    no sir-ree
    not at all..

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