Badass Paradiddlediddle Drum Fill
This free video drum lesson breaks down a paradiddlediddle drum fill
This Is The Badass Paradiddlediddle Drum Fill
This free drum lesson breaks down a badass paradiddlediddle drum fill so you can learn it and use it in your playing. The paradiddlediddle is a very popular drum rudiment and really it’s an extension of an even more popular rudiment……….the standard paradiddle.
So you probably know the paradiddle as a sticking pattern which consists of RlrrLrll. If you feel at a loss with rudiments, what they are, how to play them and how to use them then head over to the mini course page for lesson courses that develop your rudiment playing as well as application in musical settings.
But for now let’s discuss the paradiddlediddle drum fill. The basic paradiddlediddle rudiment consists of Rlrrll. Because of the way the sticking is structured it doesn’t switch leading hands like the standard paradiddle does. Therefore you always start on your right hand (of left if you chose to start that way around).
Grab the sheet music for this paradiddlediddle drum fill below so you can see what we’re looking at today. On the first line you can see how we generally play this rudiment with an accent on the first note of every beat.
As we move down to line two we start to see how we will orchestrate this rudiment around the drum kit to create our paradiddlediddle drum fill. We take that first accented note and place it on tom one. The rest of the notes fall on the snare until that last ‘ll’ of the second paradiddlediddle which also fall on tom one. We then end with a right hand accent on the floor tom.
When we get to the third line you can see where we will place this within the bar. Here we play a groove for the first two beats and then start the paradiddlediddle drum fill on beat three. It last for three beats technically because it plays the rudiment twice (which covers beats three and four) and then has a quarter note floor tom on beat one of the next bar.
This idea of going over the bar line is an interesting one and keeps the playing less predictable. One example of this that I discuss in the video is ‘In the air tonight’ by Phil Collins. Once the groove starts in the song all of his fills go over the bar line to finish around beat two of the next bar. So we are now going to do that with our fill.
So lots to get through here with our use of rudiments, orchestrating it around the kit, and then going over the bar line. Time to stop reading words and start learning the pattern!
Watch the paradiddlediddle drum fill video lesson below and make it awesome!
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