Licks are separate from rudiments. I put a great big reply up earlier on this thread about the distinction but then an old friend came around and we got talking. I'll try and put it up again later.
Disagree. Licks are rudiments, or a collection of rudiments, which are collections of single and double strokes, which are collections of up strokes and down strokes.... Your statements have the same meaning as saying: Para-diddle-diddles discourage improvisation. You should
only learn up and down strokes.
Why can't a lick be added to a list of rudiments for drumset? You talk about rudiments being the vocabulary of drumming.. true, licks serve the same propose. You can spontaneously compose using licks you've learned, just as you can with rudiments.
Plus, we all speak from flash cards sometimes. it part of life and it defines our style of speech. We don't all speak the queen's english. Colloquial sayings and figures of speech become a part of language as much as individual words do. And they may have different meanings depending on what part of the world you are in. ie...
I'm fixin to go to the store.
Lets blow this popsicle stand.
The Dude abides.
You done hired Bernard Purdie.
How do you like being where you're at?
She's got a bun in the oven.
Dead as a doornail.
Pie - (referring to pizza)
Pop - (referring to soda)
Anti-clockwise
Bees Knees
Bollocks
Bugger all
Smarmy
Sod
Keeping up with the Jones'
.. the list goes on. These phrases grammatically make no sense, or they are words that have no meaning or a different meaning depending on your region. These groupings of words we use in speech all the time, JUST LIKE groups of rudiments we could you to drum with, aka, licks.
You can't copyright drum licks. Even Steve Gadd will tell you.. everything I play, I've learned from someone else.