Accents And Ghost Notes A fill that uses two ghost notes to make the remaining notes stand out that little bit more.
Adding A Kick Before The Quarter Note Of A Seven Stroke Roll An idea for replacing a note with a bass drum to create a complex sounding pattern that pre empts the accented note.
Adding A Kick On The Second Note Of A Seven Stroke Roll Another idea for creating more complex single stroke seven fills by replacing the second note of the rudiment with a bass drum.
Adding Eighth Note Feet To The Single Stroke 9 Adding eighth note feet ostinatos to the single stroke 9 both starting and ending on the beat.
Adding Quarter Note Feet To The Single Stroke 9 Adding quarter note feet ostinatos to the single stroke 9 both starting and ending on the beat.
Applying The 'Groups Of Two' Orchestration To Fill Construction Constructing fills from a single stroke four split into groups of two.
Applying The 'Groups Of Two' Orchestration When The Rudiment Ends On The Beat A rhythmic variation on the groups of two fill that has the rudiment end on the beat rather than start on it.
Backwards Roll (Single Stroke 7) Move around the kit backwards in this interesting single stroke 7 fill.
Basic Paradiddle Diddle Groove Using Eighth Note Triplets A slowed down half time version of a groove based on the paradiddle diddle rudiment
Basic Paradiddle Groove Build some 16 beat style grooves using the paradiddle as a basis rather than a single stroke roll.
Basic Paradiddle Groove As A 3/4 Waltz Translating the level 2 basic paradiddle groove to the time signature of 3/4 in a waltz style.
Basic Paradiddle Groove In 6/8 Translating the level 2 basic paradiddle groove to the time signature of 6/8 to create a not so basic pattern.
Basic Paradiddle Groove Using Ghosted Snares A development of the paradiddle groove where the right hand plays the right and the left ghosted snares.
Basic Paradiddle Groove Using The High And Floor Toms An orchestration of the existing basic paradiddle groove.
Basic Paradiddle Groove With Simple Tom Decoration A cool sounding staggered right hand rhythm applied to a half time groove in 5/8.
Categorizing Your Playing Learn about different areas of drumming, what they mean and how to improve them.
Cymbal And Tom Madness (Double Paradiddle Fill) Using a fairly complex orchestration between both cymbals and toms to create an impressive sound fill.
Cymbal Groupings Of Two Create a slightly syncopated fill where the notes are split into groups of two across different cymbals and drums.