Video: How to Play Paradiddles & Grandmas on Drums

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Play paradiddles and grandmas on the drums; learn how with tips from our expert percussionist and drum instructor in this free drumming video music lesson.

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vegito515 Aug 02, 2008
Um....a herta has nothing to do with paradiddlediddles... nor do pudduddus. You can interpret a grandma or grandpa as a paradiddle tap with accents...this guy doesn't know anything. PS-What's with your left hand?
vegito515 Aug 02, 2008
Um....a herta has nothing to do with paradiddlediddles... nor do pudduddus. You can interpret a grandma or grandpa as a paradiddle tap with accents...this guy doesn't know anything. PS-What's with your left hand?

Video Transcript

Hello my name is James Colonna from Cherry Hills Studios. In this next clip we'll be talking about rudimental breakdowns and more specifically how the paradiddle there's really so much many different rudiments there involved with paradiddle. You have grandma's with are very marching percussion rudiments basically has a paradiddle there is padada's which is a paradiddle there are herta's which is paradiddle . And what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you how by understanding what your right hand and your left hand is doing you can move in and out of these rudiments flawlessly with no problem what so ever, because you understand that the same motion is your doing are in every single rudiment that your playing in the series. Now for those who don't know a paradiddle is 6 notes and a sequence of right left right right left left okay and that's what I'm going to be basing all of this off of. The first thing I'm going to do is going to go from the paradiddles into the grandmas now the grandmas is basically a paradiddle without that last diddle, so instead of right left right right left left it becomes right left right right left, right left right right left so your taking that second left out. (drumming) Now once we've moved that paradiddle to the grandma the sequence of right left right right left we're going to take out that first diddle and turn the grandma into a herta and a herta pattern is right left right left right left right left so instead of doing right left right right left and your basically your thinking of a paradiddle still right left right right left left you can now take it and think of a herta right left right left and I'll snap my fingers as where the other beat that other diddle would come from a paradiddle's. So it would be right left right left right left right right left, right left right right left okay (drumming)

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How to Play Paradiddles & Grandmas on Drums

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