paradiddle

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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.

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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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  • 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
  • "The third section offers a variation on the song 'Round Rye Bay for More' and relies heavily on the disciplines of rudimentary drumming with the foundation of the second section building from a paradiddle". —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • Do not let Pulpit Pounders paradiddle a tympani on your skull. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • 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
  • Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando. —  Moe Tucker
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