the_runs
01-11-2007, 01:29 AM
Hey guys, I was screwing around one day on my pad and I thought to myself, "can I do three paradiddles over two sixtuplets?" what I found was style of triplet that was very foriegn to me and hopefully foriegn to most of you out there. What I did was I took to sixtuplets normally played:
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
r l r l r l r l r l r l
And I played them like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
r l r r l r l l r l r r
take some time to try that with your hands (or sticks if your that dedicated of a drummer to have a pair near you!) If its painfully easy then just quit reading and call me noob but if you ran into trouble, as I did, then read on.
To remedy the problem of losing the triplet feel (as I have up to this point ALWAYS played my paradiddles as 16th notes) I simply broke this equation down. Instead of playing an entire sixtuplet I focused on four triplet patterns displayed as follows:
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3
r l r r l r l l r l r r
Take some time to try this out...
Once I got that up to a decent speed I encountered a problem with the necessary accented notes on the down beats (1,2,3,4) so I had to start all over again. But this time with the desired accents. I broke the pattern down again to triplets and this is how it looked.
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3
R l r r L r l l R l r r
This pattern took me a while to get especially at a decent speed. I found that the accented left on beat 2 of the second triplet was the most difficult to land especially keeping the sixtuplet feel. I highly reccomend a metronome. Because this pattern both begins and ends with the right hand I recommend inverting the pattern for the left hand and playing both patterns consecutively alteranting evry other one with the opposing hand.
I hope this exercise causes you some difficuly as it caused me. And I encourage you to try other combinations over sixtuplets like maybe inverted paradiddles or ratamaques ect. Anyway I hope this was helpful to someone out there and good luck.
the_runs
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
r l r l r l r l r l r l
And I played them like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
r l r r l r l l r l r r
take some time to try that with your hands (or sticks if your that dedicated of a drummer to have a pair near you!) If its painfully easy then just quit reading and call me noob but if you ran into trouble, as I did, then read on.
To remedy the problem of losing the triplet feel (as I have up to this point ALWAYS played my paradiddles as 16th notes) I simply broke this equation down. Instead of playing an entire sixtuplet I focused on four triplet patterns displayed as follows:
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3
r l r r l r l l r l r r
Take some time to try this out...
Once I got that up to a decent speed I encountered a problem with the necessary accented notes on the down beats (1,2,3,4) so I had to start all over again. But this time with the desired accents. I broke the pattern down again to triplets and this is how it looked.
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3
R l r r L r l l R l r r
This pattern took me a while to get especially at a decent speed. I found that the accented left on beat 2 of the second triplet was the most difficult to land especially keeping the sixtuplet feel. I highly reccomend a metronome. Because this pattern both begins and ends with the right hand I recommend inverting the pattern for the left hand and playing both patterns consecutively alteranting evry other one with the opposing hand.
I hope this exercise causes you some difficuly as it caused me. And I encourage you to try other combinations over sixtuplets like maybe inverted paradiddles or ratamaques ect. Anyway I hope this was helpful to someone out there and good luck.
the_runs