Drum Lesson : Paradiddles as fills (www.joecrabtree.com)

[jackassjoiner]

do you give private lessons? would be very interested in getting some.

[pfefftube]

@jackassjoiner Occasionally when I'm not on the road I do online lessons via Skype, or if you can travel to northern England... Contact me through my website and we can discuss

[bmckenzie69]

Just a simple little thing can sound so cool. For me the toughest part is emphasizing the singles without over playing the diddles. I guess I need to practice... Good video.

[superdupertyson]

cool, ive been practicing my diddles but havnt found a way to incorporate them into playing effectively.. its always so obvious when its shown to you :P

[saiddrial]

Awesome dude, a lot of help i got from this vid :D

[schaatsgek]

Awesome drumming mate!

[pfefftube]

@schaatsgek Thank you :)

[drumasylum29]

nice one.

i think if you play it in a bit faster bpm you will have a much nicer fill for those paradiddles

[Dokmaxx1]

Nice Job. Just getting back into drumming again after taking 20 years off. I've forgotten everything I ever learned and it's taking a little more time to get back into it.

[BenMrZin]

what beat are you playing from 2:20 - 2:26 ? Ghost notes are very nice!

I like your Lessons. They are very inspiring!

Greets from germany



[pfefftube]

@BenMrZin Thanks. It's just a paradiddle.

[bakainvein]

oh god thats gonna take alot of practice lol

[bigmarty336]

Beginner drummer here and I really enjoyed your lesson. Trying to find as much info and instruction as I can, from wherever I can. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and skill. Peace~

[Danielion55]

Good!

[lhautomationinc]

very nice...

[pfefftube]

@lhautomationinc Thank you :)

[miguell67]

very really interesting...!!! keep drumming and thanks for the ideas!! hugs from lisbon.

[pfefftube]

@miguell67 Thanks :)

[grandfromage46]

Nicely played. Clear and instructive, I'll be practising that today, thanks

[BenMrZin]

You are pretty funky. And Your Technique is great.

[rahul20]

awesome video for helping us figure out how the hell to incorporate paradiddles!

[colourfulwithaU]

Are you sure that the RL and LR need to be accented? Usually I just accent the first and fifth notes:

RlrrLrll

I'll practice it your way, too, though.

[pfefftube]

@colourfulwithaU Accenting both single strokes just gives a different effect. You can accent anything you want - it depends what sound you want to hear.

[PNWgroove]

Nice. I like the cymbal accents while ghosting the diddle on the snare. I am going to incorporate that into my playing. Thanks.

[Dr8co1]

im sorry, i was listening to your cool accent and learned nothing :3

[charliieDReaMsa7x]

aaaaaaaaaa

[TheCore1994]

this video is so cool, I have to say it... camera shakes is so fucking cool! 

[gobluteam]

Can anyone tell me the sticking for that little lick 2:21-2:23?

[jsbattlenet]

Great that you showed how to apply that to real drumming. Not many Youtube vids show how its applied to real drum rythems and of course I like you style of playing. very smooth and fast and still holding a good rythem that you could imagine in a real song. thanks

[Oneness100]

Another thing to practice is paradiddles with a triplet feel.

[gyro62]

Nice Job, thanks for sharing this !

[velo66]

I can do paradiddles just fine, but I have a hard time incorporating them properly in fills, I guess I gotta get more practise lol

[scragbasket]

Your the best tutor on youtube mate, no showing off like most of them, you keep it so simple and its bloody effective, mint.

[tatodino]

is it a Gretsch Renown ? how do you have it tuned?

[pfefftube]

@tatodino Yep. I think it's evans G2s. It's tuned pretty high.

[TheTobidara]

hey dude im from philippines can u teach me how to play the balance speed in paradiddles ??

[biusz]

snare is gated too much!!!

[pfefftube]

@biusz It's not gated at all, but I do tend to play very quiet ghost notes when I'm practising this kind of thing.

[harty678]

@biusz No it's not?.....



[jamesdancer73]

nice

[Seggerooo]

Well done!

[Gera86R]

BUENISIMOOOOOOO!!!!!

digamne por favor......los cortes qu hace en ese ritmo es solo con PARADIL O LO COMBINA CON ALGUN OTRO???

[kitorinchancla]

@Gera86R nada mas asi como dice rlrrlrll

[Tuganotube]

Tx dude! for real!

nice lesson! nice groove!

give us more!

[ringochris]

Hey Joe, Chris Lewis here. Just stumbled across your youtube stuff by accident. Good stuff! I always neglected my rudiment stuff over the years, and have recently been putting some work into them. Now signing up to your website forum! Hope you're keeping well...looks like the Wishbone thing is going good. Take it easy mate...maybe talk to you on your forum. Cheers pal, Chris

[greenfruitface]

I believe what you are referring to is a "vagadiddle." Anyway, back to the lesson here: thank you very much, this is great. Very helpful.

[ryannftw]

one time i was fucking this girl and i tried doin a paradiddle on her vagina with my penis.

[lambheartslayer]

how did you do that? Do you have a right and left penis? if so, I'm impressed. if not, I'm even more impressed.

[NikeDrums]

man,I cant stop laughin!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks

[ion7]

obviously it didn't work unless you had 2 dicks!

[leftpuman]

were you using dic firth sticks?

[pb0o6]

you shoulda went for the double. everything is better double.

[janjudas]

Hahahahahahaa!

[DeJreplica]

remember to wear a rubber in your stick(s), when making fills inside of her.

[FreakOfGames9]

@DeJreplica

Took me a while to get that.

[impavitus]

@DeJreplica are those battery powered sticks?

[DeJreplica]

@impavitus

no, just 100% meat.

[DoubleDowner]

Paradiddles are essential to practice, although they seem hard to work into fllls or to use creatively at first they start to make sense after a while.

[drummercouk]

terrific stuff!

[Christkeys09]

awesome lesson. Never had a lesson in my life been playing for years. wish I knew this kinda stuff for the kit!

[stefanakias]

easy to learn man...just practise it slow for a bit till you get it, and then the speed will come from alone

[SinisterSkip]

Cool stuff man!

[Blindvisions1]

I like the way you accent the singal strokes in the fills. It realy gives them a latin/of-beat groovy sort of thing. I haven't noticed many other drummers who do this so cudos to you my friend. Great job.

[SigDrums]

I like the general feel he has when he's playing the normal beat. The fills are quite basic, but it is a lesson, afterall. Love the feel, this guys knows what he's doing. :)

[JoesRedGuitar]

man, i wish i would have had drum lessons. I play drums, but haven't had any lessons, so these thought processes are overwhelming to me!

[Guitarfool5931]

Great vid! I just started learning rudiments and this is a great explanation on how rudiments work on actual songs or as fill ins.  Thanks!

[hebronsawyers]

I've never seen ghosts like that and i also thought paradiddles were just for the snare hehe

[willsie22]

ha most drum teachers only teach you on the snare like they did me :L

[xbandit0]

great lesson....very clean playing.

[PaulDerDoofe]

very nice...

i think more people should use these very groovy rudiments in their fills...

[HalfBakedDrummeR]

i can barely hear what you are saying maybe you should raise the volume on yer mic.... just a thought

[bleedtheyouth]

Doin' that Pridgen lick that he does in that Gospel Chops interview. Digging it for certain!

[c0r4g]

nice groovin. floor tom sounds dead tho.

[MOSTDEAFdotCOM]

how about a hey diddle diddle

[andrevth]

i find it damn difficult to coordinate paraddilddles and do them fast...

[isaacleedrums]

For years i struggled with getting paradiddles up to speed. It seemed impossible. The best tips I can offer are; work with a metronome, start slow, practice daily and it will happen for you in months instead of years. (i didn't practice often in my early years)

[muggersarelosers]

i see. practice is still the key. thanks alot man

[rickb731]

how bout a flip a diddle?

[billkessler]

i love you.

[SuperfuryanimaL01]

You just can't keep a good paradiddle down!

[DruMmMeuR]

Ok, good teaching! I'm teaching drums too, almost every day, that's my job :).

I must say something!!

Do paradiddle with one accent only on the first single stroke... and... put your right hand on the ride or hi-hats... now, add bass drum at the same time on any ride or hi-hats!!

Have fun making paradiddle beat!!!

Same thing with double paradiddle!!!!

[BokorugroRR]

Very smooth movement, good techique.

[StricklandPropane1]

Great video man you helped me a lot, thx

[cfsvillanueva]

Hey Joe, Its me Charles. How come an inverted paradiddle's sticking is like this RLLR LRRL? Its obviously jumbled but not really inverted, shouldnt it be like RRLR LLRL (although this would be a drag)

[madamejam]

That is a paradiddle too. There is 4 ways to play a paradiddle.

RLRR LRLL

RRLR LLRL

RLLR LRRL

RLRL LRLR

Good luck!!! Hope this helps.

[DrumDisciple1]

cfs, you're right about one thing - that an inverted paradiddle is phrased "RRLR, LLRL". "Inverted" by definition means to be reversed. In the case of the inverted paradiddle, the sticking is as shown, with the first three notes graced and the last one accented for each sequence. The two grace notes played at the beginning of the inverted paradiddle are indeed "diddles" and not "drags". A "drag" is two notes played with the same hand at a speed TWICE that of the other notes in the phrasing.

[DrumDisciple1]

Now, "RLLR, LRRL" is being called an inverted paradiddle on many websites and many instructors, but in fact is what's called a "permutation paradiddle". In this lesson, the instructor has moved the starting point of the paradiddle (a permutation) and also includes an additional accent to make both single strokes accented. Hope this helps and good luck on the set!

[themancable]

Yeah, you're right. Good that you pointed out the difference between diddles and drags, that's important to get a grip on (pun intended). But we're getting a tad pedantic here, don't you think? I guess we're just the paradiddle police! :-) As usual, nice job Joe. For the record, here are the paradiddle permutations: 1) RLRR LRLL 2) RLLR LRRL 3) RRLR LLRL 4) RLRL LRLR 5) LRLL RLRR 6) LRRL RLLR 7) LLRL RRLR 8) LRLR RLRL The same thing can be done with paraparadiddles and paradiddlediddles.

[SteveM2781995]

ur alright at drumming

[chtidrummer]

cool man

[jassfoundation]

study befor post a video .....

not good ...

[violinbloke]

Study befor post a comment. Grammar, spelling.

[PEHIO]

hUHAUHuhauhU good reply XDXD

[jbyrd117]

@violinbloke rofl read your own post

[RawkinOutt]

@violinbloke before* posting**

[violinbloke]

@RawkinOutt .....You misunderstand.......I was replying to some chump whose spelling etc were terrible, but was telling the guy who posted the vid that he should study before posting.

[RawkinOutt]

@violinbloke So you misspelled words purposely? lol

[chtidrummer]

good job

[underprog]

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[xXAcE76Xx]

awsome job.what kind of set is that?

[pfefftube]

The 10,12,14 are Gretsch renown toms with evansG2s, the 16" is a Yamaha Recording custom as is the bass drum.

I play Sonor drums now which I love. Videos with that kit coming soon....

Joe

[Mihail99pap]

big help for me also.Thanx

[CH1NNO]

Very tight man! cheers big help!

[maggotmikey891]

Dude thank you so much, i like your teaching... No one has done such good examples of using paradiddles, you helped me out a lot

[Englishneo2k]

Very well taught - i ike the beat that you play when you're going into the example fills at full speed... clean and tidy.

[matxy]

niiiice

[candlemaniac]

Cool! Mitch Mitchell used to do some stuff with paradiddles too, but you're definitely taking it a step further.

[Liam1983bass]

thats really helpful thanks very much! great lesson

[art5]

thanks!

oh and a verry cool kit u have there....

[ssantixx]

great tunnung and setting

[drumguy22]

great drumming,and lesson.

[tibaccon]

good druming and well known explain

[someonewith]

please make a lesson about all those little funk tricks when ur doing the groove

[HOTLIGHTS1]

cool. what kind of drums are you using?

[crusty76]

VERY COOL LESSON! THANX.