This lessons is another orchestration idea for the Inverted Paradiddle. It is essential that you are familiar with this sticking for this lesson and you may find the exercises easier if you have covered other inverted paradiddle orchestration lessons previously. The concept used in the construction of these exercises is similar to the Moving Quarter Notes and Moving Doubles orchestrations.
In the orchestration exercises below, you will be played an inverted paradiddle on the snare and every time a single stroke is played you will be moving those hands to another part of the kit. Because of the way the sticking for an inverted paradiddle works, the order the singles move in will alternate each time. In this Single Stroke Triplet Orchestration lesson I discussed the idea of 'splitting the kit', the same idea is applied here. Feet have been included all exercises but in those that include cymbals they might not be a pattern you have used before.
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
TASKS
- Using the 2 Minute Rule, get all exercises up to a tempo of at least 120bpm.
- Create your own orchestrations using this concept.
- Add various feet patterns to the exercises.
- Apply these orchestrations as fills.
