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Benze10

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Hey guys just wondering if anyone could help me out a bit.

I'm in a music university studying drums (of course) and we've been asked to choose an "area of specialism" and do a presentation on it which counts for a certain percentage of my grade.

I've chosen "Interpretation of Rudiments for Grooves and Fills" as my area of specialism. I've done some research already but have got a bit stuck and was just wondering if anyone else could pitch in and help me out a bit.

I basically just need a bunch of drummers to look into, any songs with rudiment grooves in them to use as musical examples and maybe some books or dvds that you think could help me out.

I didn't really know where to post this but hopefully this is okay.

Any help is much appriciated!

Thanks, Ben.
 
One of the more recent DRUM! magazines (I think its the one with the Black Keys guy on the cover), has an article about paradiddle grooves, and has a ton of examples... The two I remember are:

Devil's Orchard (double paradiddle as triplets) - Opeth (Martin Axenrot)
Vasoline (single paradiddles, striaght) - Stone Temple Pilots (dunno his name)
 
If you want lessons from the master,as far as groove,and fills using rudaments,then go to youtube,and search for Steve Gadd paradiddle.He starts with a paradiddle based groove,and ends up doing fills,while still paying the groove.

As far as solos,a great deal of Buddys stuff was singles,doudles,and paradiddles.....just really fast.Dave Weckl also talks about soloing using just those 3 rudements.Its all on youtube.Cheers

Steve B
 
Steve Gadd also talkes about how he uses ratamaques a lot. I have heard his say that the end of Aja was mostly ratamaques.
 
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