Lesson #016 - Paradiddle-Diddle Fills

[Virgil]

The Paradiddle-diddle is one of the rudiments well suited to speed. If you can spend some time developing it, you will be pleased at how adaptive it is on the drum-set. I have given you some examples of how I use it around the drums, but it can also be quite effective simply played on the snare drum. When playing it around the drums on the video examples, I have used two groupings. Firstly sixteenth note triplets, and then 32nd notes. The latter tends to be a little more difficult to execute, so care must be taken to understand fully where the beats fall in relation to the meter.

Take your time, and use a click track.

<img src="images/attach/wmv.gif">For a video demonstration on paradiddle-diddles, click here. (http://www.virgildonati.com/msgboard/attachments/fills-paradiddlediddle.wmv)

Here's the basic paradiddle rudiment, played on the snare.

<img src="images/!charts/fills-paradiddlediddle-a.gif">

Practice placing the downbeat around the drums clockwise and also the transition from playing time.

<img src="images/!charts/fills-paradiddlediddle-b.gif">

Following is an alternative phrasing I use for the paradiddle-diddle. Here I group them into 32nd notes. (Refer to video)

<img src="images/!charts/fills-paradiddlediddle-c.gif">

When practicing this 32nd note phrasing, I reccomend you play quarter notes with your hi-hat foot, and also count, so you can learn to keep track of the meter with the shifting accents.

<img src="images/!charts/fills-paradiddlediddle-d.gif">

<img src="images/attach/wmv.gif">For a video demonstration on paradiddle-diddles, click here. (http://www.virgildonati.com/msgboard/attachments/fills-paradiddlediddle.wmv)