I suck at paradiddles and paradiddlediddles. is there any exercise i can do to help my muscle memory?

shermanology · 11 months

Yes. They are called paradiddles.

neelshiv · 11 months

Just start slow. It's not going to happen over night. Play slowly along with a metronome and you will get the hang of it. If somebody can't do a bicep curl with a certain weight, they don't do other exercises designed to make them better at doing bicep curls, do they? No, they just do the bicep curl with lower weight and build up their strength.

discord · 11 months

http://www.amazon.com/Stick-Control-George-Lawrence-Stone/dp/1892764040

elbrato · 11 months

i like this video, it has helped me a ton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZnV220egro

gawbbloof · 11 months

you can separate each hand as you do it. play a paradiddle with one hand on the pad and the other on your leg or some thing. you'll see that your hand does an accent and a diddle. practicing that can help gain muscle memory. this technique also goes well with flam accents and flam taps.

also make sure that your accenting the first note, that really helps give you a foundation of where you are in the rudiment and helps avoiding confusion when you're moving into variations. when you accent you can really hear the beat your making and let them flow from hand to hand. if you play the whole rudiment at the same dynamic it's easy to get confused in that mess of taps.

a good and extremely common exercise is the Paradiddle Pyramid. look it up on youtube. another one that can mix para-diddles and para-diddle diddles is called Paradiddle 7/8. im sure you can look that up as well.

remember to start as slow as possible and build to as fast as you can take it clean (and then go a bit beyond that) and then back down. push your tempo more and more till you can play the rudiment at any tempo. use a met!

McWatt · 11 months

There is no shortcut to the various diddles, only diddlediscipline. Try starting very very slow and focusing on playing it right before you speed up.

odddrums · 11 months

Slowly... [60 BPM or 1 beat per second]

PAR [R]

RA [L]

DID [R]

DIDLE [R]

PAR [L]

RA [R]

DID [L]

DIDLE [L]

[repeat]

and go steady, making each stroke with the wrist and not by opening fingers. Start with a clock going this fast, speed up slowly enough that you can do it without making a mistake. If you start messing up you're going to fast, just slow down and start back up.

Remember: What is difficult today shall be easier tomorrow with practice.

kpo03001 · 11 months

Sllllooooooowwwwww it down.
I started (4/4) quarter notes at 60 bpm on the metronome.
Do it for two minutes each day (amongst the rest of your drum practice routine), and every few days or so increase the speed by 5 bpm.
Also, if no one has said it, count the para-diddle-diddles in triplets.

withstereosound · 11 months

You can even think about breaking it down into the skeleton of both the paradiddle and paradiddlediddle.

So RLR- LRL- RLR- LRL- RLRR LRLL RLRR LRLL

Paradiddlediddles, as mentioned below, are good to think of as triplets at first.

RLR-L- RLR-L- RLRRLL RLRRLL

It might help to be able to think of the individual strokes and the double strokes independently.

At the same time, you might just wake up one day and it just makes sense, but that's not without slowing it down and working your way up. It may seem tedious, but there aren't any shortcuts in drumming. Listen, practice, hard work.

[deleted] · 11 months

are you playing with a metronome? no matter how slow it is, it is imperative you stick to a steady loop. count out loud with your voice to keep track, "1 e and a 2 e and a 3 e and a 4 e and a" so you know the o"1" and "3" you start with one hand, the "2" and "4" you start the sequence with the other hand. good luck!

redsnappa · 11 months

One thing I learned that really solidified paradidles for me was to do parididdles like normal, except raise the opposide hand during the diddle part. So basically you would have your usual RLRR, and you would raise the left hand during the RR and bring it down, accented, to start the next LRLL. And once again, raise the right hand during the LL.

grammilla · 11 months

sit-ups and Adderal I guess.

jedijesus · 11 months

Construct a shrine to Steve Gadd, worship upon it daily. On the 7th day at high noon you will be blessed with extreme efficiency in rudiments.

If that doesn't work practice slow and build speed. Patience.

Peezor · 11 months

I always get a kick(no pun intended) out of people asking how to play or practice these RUDIMENTARY drum sticking's. These are the BASIS of drumming and if you can't figure out which hand is right and which hand is left, I don't know what to say haha.

Practice slow & with a metronome. Once you feel comfortable move the BPM up 1-2 and continue. Pay attention to your grip, stick height, rebound & dynamics.

Over time you will build the muscle memory needed to play these stickings at fast speeds so don't worry about speed until you can perform the motions fluidly.

clancyjr · 11 months

No choice but to do paradiddles, but make them fun. Do the lead note of all RLRR paradiddles on the floor tom, keep the rest on the snare, put the lead Left note of the LRLL on the first rack tom. when you get that moving pretty quickly, its actually a bad ass fill. I prefer to practice my rudiments in ways like this, to keep my brain engaged. Otherwise, its just my hands, and thats not enough.

givemesomelove · 11 months

Rlrr Lrll Rlrr Lrll

RlRlrr LrLrll Rlrr

LrLrll RlRlrr Lrll

RlRlRlrr LrLrLrll

RlRlrr LrLrll Rlrr

LrLrll RlRlrr Lrll

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bhamby · 10 months

Break them down. Play each individual hand's part and then add the other hand in gradually. Start slow, technique is key. Use a metronome.

doyle30 · 9 months

this how i did it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4KpIyyjKW8

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