La video de Quincy Davis.
Why?
- Freer application of diddles
- Better organized stickings
- Speed/fluidity (bring accents out)
- Playing inner partials
Exercises
Snare only
Paradiddle displacement
Paradiddles restart one 16th later every bar. For this you add a note (the accented note but not accented) and repeat the previous paradiddle.
X-++ O+-- X-++ O+--
+O+- -X-+ +O+- -X-+
+-X- ++O+ --X- ++O+
--+O +--X --+O +--X
then same but inverted
Me: notice the last paradiddle is only one stroke because adding strokes consumes time.
Paradiddle-diddle displacement
X-++-- X-++-- | +O+--+ +O+--+
+-X-++ --X-++ | --+O+- -++O+-
-++-X- ++--X- | ++--+O +--++O
then same but inverted (dble O!)
Double paradiddle displacement
Same idea than the first but with
X-X-++ O+O++--.
X-X-++ O+O+-- X-X-++ O+O+--
+O+O+- -X-X-+ +O+O+- -X-X-+
+-X-X- ++O+O+ --X-X- ++O+O+
--+O+O +--X-X --+O+O +--X-X
-++-X- X-++O+ O+--X- X-++O+
O+--+O +O+--X -X-++O +O+--X
then same but inverted
With bass drums
Use the bass drums to play the added note.
On the last one QD plays with closed and splashed HH!
Follow up
- Play the accents on the toms but stay on the snare.
- Play anywhere on the kit.
- Combine the diddles.
My comments
- After a kick you can use whatever hand you want.
- You can use a double to displace two strokes away, from down to down or up to up.
- Try paradiddles in a ternary context and the others in a binary context.
X-++O+ --X-++ O+--X- ++O+--
+O+--X -++O+- -X-++O +--X-+
+-X-++ O+--X- ++O+-- X-++O+
then same but inverted
X-++ --X- ++-- | X-++ --X- ++--
+O+- -++O +--+ | +O+- -++O +--+
+-X- ++-- X-++ | --X- ++-- X-++
--+O +--+ +O+- | -++O +--+ +O+-
-++- X-++ --X- | ++-- X-++ --X-
++-- +O+- -++O | +--+ +O+- -++O
then same but inverted (dble O!)