Drums - Paradiddles : The Paradiddle Diddle

Playing the paradiddle diddle is easy with these tips, get expert advice on drum skills in this free video.

Expert: Shaun Schaefer
Bio: Shaun Schaefer is the drummer for Platinum recording artist Blessid Union Of Souls. An award winner, Schaefer has toured the world and played for the masses including our troops in Afghanistan.
Filmmaker: matt senatore

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Howto & Style

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• paradiddles
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• lessons
• snare
• hi
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[theknifeguy651]

tune your snare drum!

[oODallyOo]

Im not being a troll... I think this is a good video... but "If you look at the paradiddle diddle, it is exactly the same, apart from the sticking"... Im pretty sure, thats what seperates almost all grooves in the same time signature, is the sticking :L Just Saying xD

[qoxohifo]

@finneykris so by your logic anything that can keep on being simplified should? if your doing single strokes in 4/4 as semiquavers it shouldn't be 4/4 it should be 1/4 or 4/16 or something? there is nothing wrong with what he has done

[aussieage]

Mathimatically it is correct, it does not represent 6 - 8th notes per bar. instead it compresses a 2 bar phrase into 1.

counting aloud "1 and 2 and 2 and 4 and 5 and 6 and" is actually counting in 6/4. this is why it is so confusing. you should be counting "1,2,3,4,5,6" You have written in 12/16, count in 6/4, and put the time signiture as 6/8

To turn it into 6/8 get rid of one of the beams changins the groups into 8th and put a bar line after the first 6 notes making it a 2 bar phrase.

[finneykris]

@qoxohifo twelve semiquavers is the same as three crotchets so its 3/16

[finneykris]

@qoxohifo its not 6/8 if theirs no syncopation , its 6/16 you'd need a synchpated bar or two after that to make it 6/8 or 6/16

thats why 4/4 can may the same as 2/2 if there is no syncopation

[qoxohifo]

@finneykris your an idiot xD

12 semiquavers is equivalent to 6 quavers... thus 6/8

[jkbrown34568]

thumbs up if you liked the advertisement video wit da dancers nd drummers......

[finneykris]

if you want 6/8 write the notes as quavers (1 tail or 1 bar across to gruop the note stems so it isnt 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and its 1 e and a 2 e and a 3 e and a (barline would be here if you wanted the same space as if the notes were 8th notes) 4 e and a 5 e and a 6 e and a

[finneykris]

those are 16th notes so its 6/16 not as you written '6/8'