Developing Paradiddle Speed - Free Drum Lessons

hi my name is Mike mikela co I am the author of the drumming system and today I want to show you how to develop paradiddle speed it was a rudiment for me that was one of those things that I had learned and never really paid much attention to until I saw some my favorite drummers really utilizing the paradiddle around the drums or on the snare drum or just essentially anywhere around the set right and so when I took it more seriously and started to understand the concept of this rudiment I realized there is a secret way to get this faster okay so let me demonstrate the paradiddle just as a recap for some of you folks I don't know what it is it's right left right right left right left left pair a dead dull pair I did so that didn't happen overnight I mean that was one of those things that took a little bit of time to practice and I kind of got the the concept of what I was doing but I want to started to realize before I could really boost my speed is I kind of had to sort of really examine what was going on in my hands I knew the pattern was right left right right left right left left but oddly enough I can't move my hands out fast like I really I can't you know they just don't want to want does more work that way so for me I started to have to realizing where is the rebound happening because you see these drummers you know on the D playing and you wouldn't see much moving nothing was moving in the hands or in the arms but the sticks were flying so when I started to realize what the paradiddle truly was right left right right I realized it was three rights in that first half and then of course the second half left right left left and I went hey that's kind of like a triple stroke roll with a little pause in there and the triple stroke roll was a rudiment that I never really practiced and I did go back and practice it so what I started to do is I started to practice my triple stroke roll one two three one two three one two three one two three one two three one two three and at the time it wasn't very good sloppy and wasn't fast but I started to get the concept of having three notes per hand as opposed to just two okay then when I started to do is I started to go okay which was a triple stroke roll but it was there was a pause between we'll say the first note and the second third was like one two three I see that and I tried to play the other two notes softer you know the first note was the initial stroke and the second two notes were a nice can well rebound and I did up the left hand that took a little bit of time and me not too long I'd say about a month you know and then what I realize is that if I could sneak in that left where that pause is on the right hand there's my right left right right and I would just practice that and I was like hey it starting to come together the left side was a little bit of a trick because I wasn't used to starting with my left hand it's slower for you okay so that was a bit of a trick because that was like wow this feels weird but once I got past the weirdness of it it started to fall into place so then I would go and notice how my stick came up after the rebound so he's ready for the next initial stroke and once I got this started then I was able to shorten the gap and go hey and that's kind of how I restarted because when I was first learning the paradiddle it was all wrists and I was going and it was sloppy and it was it was just noise I didn't like it like that and then when I started doing this started to sound a little musical a little more musical than it was for the last time and it now sounded like I had this nice flow of a rhythm back it ticka ticka ticka ticka ticka and I would slowly try to bring the tempo up a little bit and if it got to the point where we're starting to fall apart I would just hold it right there where it felt like I was going to fall apart and then I play that for a few more minutes and let's see if I go a little faster a little faster a little faster and it was kind of funny because there was some times where I didn't even realize I was still playing the paradiddle just didn't even feel right in my hands but I you know I was low and behold I was still playing it but the thing to is just take it slow and you know and practice this stuff you know just that your own pace don't push it too much unless it's an ultimate goal of yours to have a fast paradiddle within a month but the real secret for me was practicing that triple stroke role as I was killing two birds with one stone as I was learning the triple stroke roll and then I was able to translate that into the the paradiddle but simply you think one of there's three rights and three left's almost in a row right and mainly wrists with the help of some fingers right what I'm trying to do now is I'm trying to play the same concept with no accent because the accent is at least giving me the rebound so now I'm trying to play a little bit harder put more fingers and wrists involved but it's all control now of the bounces so there is my little tips for you guys on how to get a faster paradiddle I hope that helps so as I've mentioned before my name is Mike Michalka I am the author of the drumming system you can click on the link below to see more about what the drumming is you know the training package is full of all kinds of great things that we can learn on the drums click on that link check it out we'll see

Channel: Drumeo

Views: 4,105,397

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Keywords: Mike michalkow, jared falk, drumeo, drum lessons, single paradiddle, paradiddles, free drum lessons, drumming system, drumming, drummer, drums, practice pad, practice pad drum lessons

Id: B1IQj83NCgI

Length: 7min 43sec (463 seconds)

Published: Fri May 16 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/iNeedSaddleForMyDrgn]

he touched on it at the very end, but my biggest concern with this "tutorial" is that the accenting with this technique is very limited and you can't make quite as funky of rudiments, which is a huge bummer considering the paradiddle is one of the easiest and funnest rudiments to accent at different parts and make it sound amazing.

edit: it is still excellent practice to do it his way. especially with the three stroke role practice you get as well. he did have some godly paradiddles. i just wouldn't recommend practicing this exclusively

[u/coday182]

I watched this video 4 or 5 days ago. I'm 50/50 on how much I liked his lesson. Here is my percussionist background: Played in school band from 6th-10th grade, and also took about a year's worth of drum lessons. I learned all the rudiments, but never developed them to where I could do them super fast.

I'm re-learning everything, and I came across this video while looking for some tutorials on getting my paradiddles faster (I could do them at about 170 bpm playing them as 8th notes, not quite fast enough to make them into a "roll"). This exercise helped me get a LITTLE faster, but I felt like it was at the expense of my tight rudiments. Granted, I need to practice my left handed 2 and 3 stroke rolls (which this helped with), but I think this leaned too much on muscle memory.

I just feel like these bread and butter rudiments should be about 50/50, where it's half counting/thinking/musical and half muscle memory. This method, I think, relied a little too much on muscle memory. I'm sure when you get really really fast, that you 'feel' it more than you think about the timing. But I am the type of guy who would like to learn it the old fashioned and hard way, and spend hours and hours just getting a little faster at a time. I think that's where the instructor in this video is at, currently, and he is trying to help the rest of us by showing a shortcut to get there. Nothing wrong with that, it's just not my style.

[u/catsdanceonkeyboard]

I'm not really getting how the triple stroke feel helped with paradiddles. It's like he completely ignored the mechanics of accent-tap and just cheated the innerbeats.