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Matt Byrne: Redistributing Rudiments

Ever try taking standard American drum rudiments and applying them to a kit? Matt Byrne created these exercises to be translated between the kick, snare, and hi-hat, to ultimately be used on the entire kit.

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Danny Gottlieb: Morello Speed Paradiddles

My teacher, Joe Morello, studied with Stick Control author George Lawrence Stone, and over the years has developed an incredible variety of variations based on the book. I have adapted one of my favorites to work on a specific jazz problem: the ability to play fast tempos on the ride cymbal. Joe basically takes the first three pages of Stick Control, and for every eighth-note of the exercise, has students play a paradiddle with that hand.

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The Schnalle Method: Pondering The Paradiddle

Recently I was working with a student on paradiddles and a multitude of variations when he looked at me and asked, “What am I supposed to do with these?” Fair enough.

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Schnalle Method: Preaching The Paradiddle

In my continuing effort to preach the paradiddle, that worthy little combination of some of drumming’s most basic elements, I offer here the basic paradiddle and its inversions with a basic bossa nova—like foot pattern.

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Mike Cosgrove: Playing Around With Paradiddles

One of the best ways to challenge your technique is to play paradiddles in as many ways possible. Here's a lesson that shows how.

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Glen Caruba: Mastering Conga-Diddles

So you thought paradiddles were strictly for drum set players, eh? Well, back in the ’90s, Puerto Rican conga sensation Giovanni Hidalgo blew everybody’s minds by applying drum set rudiments to conga technique, and redefined the boundaries of that age-old discipline. In this exercise, DRUM! columnist Glen Caruba shares a number of paradiddle variations for conga players.