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Showing posts with label drum rudiment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drum rudiment. Show all posts

Saturday, 25 October 2014

What's A Rudiment For? Part 2 - Displacing Paradiddles

The Paradiddle is one of the most adaptable rudiments around, and yet in many exercise books it only appears either on beats 1 or 3 of the bar. What this lesson will show is that it has far more potential  when moved around the bar, one groove and one fill can become many. Once you have familiarised yourself with the following exercises any Paradiddle combination can be inserted, making the possibilities almost endless!



Friday, 24 October 2014

What's A Rudiment For? Part 1 - The Five Stroke Roll


The five stroke roll in it's basic form is a very militaristic sounding rudiment. This may be one of the reasons why many drummers get put off by rudiments, they can sound old fashioned, and seem to have no place in modern music. However, in this infrequent series I hope to show that there's plenty of life in the old dogs yet!