{"id":33252,"date":"2022-01-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=33252"},"modified":"2023-11-14T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:55:11","slug":"16-ways-to-level-up-your-stick-control-with-paradiddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/16-ways-to-level-up-your-stick-control-with-paradiddles\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Ways To Level Up Your Stick Control With Paradiddles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yuMFfxa1FTo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Dorothea Taylor isn&#8217;t just the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/dont-judge-a-drummer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">godmother of drumming<\/a>&#8230;she&#8217;s also the queen of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/rudiments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rudiments<\/a>. Did you know that these popular drumming patterns make up the bulk of a lot of the grooves, chops, and fills you hear on your favorite albums or in your favorite drum videos?<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/why-paradiddles-are-so-important\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paradiddles are Dorothea&#8217;s go-to<\/a> because they&#8217;re so versatile. There are four ways to play a paradiddle (we call them &#8216;inversions&#8217;):<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:list {\"ordered\":true} --><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>RLRR LRLL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/single-paradiddle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">watch this video to learn how to play the standard paradiddle<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>RLLR LRRL (inversion 1)<\/li>\n<li>RRLR LLRL (inversion 2)<\/li>\n<li>RLRL LRLR (inversion 3)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Think of it like shifting the RLRR pattern down a circular conveyor belt until it comes back out the end you started on!<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Once you get used to playing paradiddles and inverted paradiddles on a single surface, try them in a groove on the drum kit and break the rights and lefts between snare and hi-hat, snare and toms, or other surfaces. Add ghost notes and dynamics to give the groove more feel. <\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t think there were even <em>more <\/em>ways to do cool things with paradiddles, well&#8230;there are.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>You can play each inversion (variation) four different ways by putting the accent on a different beat. Try to only accent the 1s, then only accent the 2s, then the 3s, then the 4s.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>For example, here&#8217;s how you&#8217;d shift the accents on a regular paradiddle:<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:list {\"ordered\":true} --><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>R<\/strong>lrr <strong>L<\/strong>rll<\/li>\n<li>r<strong>L<\/strong>rr l<strong>R<\/strong>ll<\/li>\n<li>rl<strong>R<\/strong>r lr<strong>L<\/strong>l<\/li>\n<li>rlr<strong>R<\/strong> lrl<strong>L<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!-- \/wp:list --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Four paradiddle variations, and four variations on each of those: that&#8217;s 16 ways to play a paradiddle!<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Once you learn these paradiddle variations well enough to play them in your sleep, you&#8217;ll find yourself using them all the time. You may not realize you&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/11-ways-to-make-rudiments-fun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">playing rudiments<\/a> when you&#8217;re sprinkling these concepts into your beats and fills, but they&#8217;ll take your stick control and creativity to the next level.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve put together a playlist with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-find-and-use-drumless-tracks-and-play-alongs\">drumless tracks<\/a> at different tempos so you can practice your exercises over real music:<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1pPXjC7HbKSmU9chVYxvEb?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>If you enjoyed this video, you can learn much more from Dorothea so you can play faster and tighter &#8211; with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Drumeo membership<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play faster, tighter, and with more stick control by learning these paradiddle variations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":33287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4034],"tags":[282],"class_list":["post-33252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rudiment-applications","tag-rudiments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33252"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49145,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33252\/revisions\/49145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}