brentcn
Platinum Member
Okay, a bit more than an hour later. 1/8th notes 100bpm. Used about the first 10 minutes just doing the hands so I could get the hang of it. Adding the foot was really weird at first. I kept turning it back into a paradiddle. Eventually it started to feel right and I played it for maybe another 10-15 minutes. Again it's just the pad, so no movement around anything yet. Just getting comfortable with the pattern. I'll keep working on it.
As for 3/4, yeah no. It's gonna take some serious time for that.
I wrote the exercise on a strip of painters tape and stuck it to my pad. I accented 4/4 at the top and 3/4 at the bottom in two cycles. It should go like 4 I think, but I ran outta space. Anyhow, I barely made it to the second half of the measure let alone back around and over the bar before I lost it. I had the met at 60bpm and was playing the same. If I slow it to a snail's pace I can read it and play it sloppily. No, it sucks a fat one. Sloppily is being nice. That is one warped exercise. I like it.
I think the struggle now begins (with this).
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Staying oriented is the real challenge. That’s why keeping time with the foot adds so much difficulty. If you play it with an accent on the first note, then the hand motions are quite different from a normal paradiddle.
Typically, the paradiddle has 4 permutations:
RLRR LRLL
RLLR LRRL
RRLR LLRL
RLRL LRLR
Probably best to get started on all 4, rather than learn them one at a time. And there’s even more if you open up a copy of Stick Control.