Singles, Doubles & Paradiddle Drum Beats

Video Transcript

"So now we're going to look at an exercise that involves playing singles, doubles, and paradiddles. And I mentioned this exercise, both in this series, but also when talking about the double stroke roll, because it's just a great exercise. What we're going to do is we're going to play singles, doubles, and paradiddles consecutively, and the idea is that if you had your eyes closed they would sound exactly the same. You'd have no idea whether the drummer was playing singles, doubles, or paradiddles. The idea of that, the goal is that you want the par paradiddles to sound just as even as your singles or doubles. So I'll play this four notes per click, or rather; I'll play four notes per rudiment, and then switch between them. So first singles, then doubles, then paradiddles. So as you can see, it's hard to have the exact same feel between singles, doubles, and paradiddles, but that's the goal of the exercise. And what we'll look at afterwards is actually moving this and shrinking it down. Where there we played four clicks between, for each rudiment; singles, doubles, and paradiddles, and what we can do is look at moving it down to four, and then even one, or rather, two and then even one."