paradiddle

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I never sat in a room and tried to copy records or practice a paradiddle.

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  1. noun A pattern of drumbeats characterized by four basic beats and alternating left-handed and right-handed strokes on the successive primary beats.

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  • I never sat in a room and tried to copy records or practice a paradiddle. —  ɘloЯ
  • Although a beginning percussion student may know what motions are involved in a paradiddle, it will still take practice to develop the motor programs required to produce those motions. —  Architectradure
  • But flam paradiddle-diddles are tricky, because the extra diddle reverses the sticking, so the hand that plays the second diddle also has to play the accented stroke of the following first flam— three quick strokes with the same hand, ending on the accent, which goes against inertia. —  Moe Tucker
  • She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled. —  Moe Tucker
  • LEE: How about a paradiddle, OK. —  CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2004
 

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