blasterbeat
Senior Member
what is the best technique to getting started? what would a practice excercise encompass? any help/hints would be appreciated.
add ghost notes progressively as i do in this lesson:
http://jasonhorsler.tripod.com/id64.html
make sure your ghosts are softer than your hat (my vids are loud on purpose)
j
Deathmetalconga,
Will practicing paradidle be equally effective?
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Deathmetalconga,
Will practicing paradidle be equally effective?
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No it won't. The exercise deathmetalconga has written is all single strokes to develop each hand's abilty to play successive single stroke ghost notes.
A paradiddle of course uses the double stroke to play the successive notes, so yeah not the same.
Why won't a paradiddle assist in practising ghost notes? Agreed that a paradiddle "is not the same" as single triplets, but I'd argue it's still effective in developing ghosted notes. A ghost by definition is just a quieter stroke. Whether it be a single, double or tripple stroke, you can still practice them ghosted or accented. I practice paradiddles with the ghosted didles often (I also practice them with accented diddles and ghosted singles), same with the six stroke rolls where the two singles are accented and the two doubles ghosted. I see it as a more of a dynamics (read: control) issue as opposed to only being able to play ghost notes as single strokes. You can ghost any stroke in the same way as you can accent any stroke.