Hi! I am Wes Crawford, and now we’re going to expand upon our Paradiddle concepts a little bit.
Remember, we have four paradiddles. We have the single paradiddle which gives para-diddle, para-diddle. We have the double paradiddle which would be para-para-diddle, para-para-diddle. The triple paradiddle, para-para-para-diddle, para-para-para-diddle, and the paradiddle diddle is, para-diddle-diddle, para-diddle-diddle. We did two of each. Paras are opposite hands hitting; diddles are the same hand hitting twice.
Let’s try to put our feet together, hitting together like this [Demonstration] at the beginning of each paradiddle. Just always start feeling the four limbs playing together when we do paradiddles. So we’ll hit the limbs together, the four limbs together on the very first stroke of each paradiddle. So we’re going [Demonstration]. We’ll hit these four limbs and add the feet in, that is, to the very first stroke [Demonstration].
And I want to emphasize that these should be practiced on the snare drum as well to sound as even as possible. You don’t want one hand sounding louder than the other or any accents right now. It sounds like this then [Demonstration].
Now, let’s try the double paradiddle. And again, I’ll do my hand on two different sounds so you can hear them better, and we’ll just play the feet together on the first stroke of the double paradiddles [Demonstration]. We’ll now try the para-para-diddle which is the triple paradiddle [Demonstration].
Notice with each of these paradiddle types, each time the feet hit, it’s with an opposite hand. The first time was with the right, the next paradiddle type starts with the left, so the feet will be hitting with that. So, you’ll have to get used to changing which hand is hitting with the feet.
With the para-diddle-diddle, it keeps coming back to the same hand as you’ll notice.
[Demonstration]
And again, the value in practicing something like this is that you’ll be able to use these paradiddles more freely in fills and in your own beats.
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