{"id":22660,"date":"2020-03-31T08:07:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=22660"},"modified":"2022-08-23T11:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:20:20","slug":"the-paradiddle-diddle-turnaround-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/the-paradiddle-diddle-turnaround-pyramid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paradiddle-Diddle Turnaround Pyramid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S31IPiW4udI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking for something fun to work out on the pad? Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/single-paradiddle-diddle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paradiddle-diddle<\/a> turnaround pyramid, which you might have also seen from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/great-hands-and-fills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pat Petrillo<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/tommy-igoe-drum-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tommy Igoe<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It starts with four rotations of paradiddle-diddles (RLRRLL) leading with your right hand, followed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/single-paradiddle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">single paradiddle<\/a> (RLRR) to turn it around. Then it&#8217;s four paradiddle-diddles leading with your left hand and a single paradiddle turnaround. Next, it&#8217;s three rotations of paradiddle-diddles and a single paradiddle &#8211; leading with the right, then the left &#8211; and then two rotations, one rotation, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the sticking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RLRRLL RLRRLL RLRRLL RLRRLL RLRR<br>LRLLRR LRLLRR LRLLRR LRLLRR LRLL<br>RLRRLL RLRRLL RLRRLL RLRR<br>LRLLRR LRLLRR LRLLRR LRLL<br>RLRRLL RLRRLL RLRR<br>LRLLRR LRLLRR LRLL<br>RLRRLL RLRR<br>LRLLRR LRLL<br>RLRRLL RLRR<br>LRLLRR LRLL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try it on the pad or on your full kit. The paradiddle-diddle is another useful skill to add to your vocabulary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Share a video of you doing this exercise on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/edge\">Drumeo members forum<\/a> or on social media using the hashtag #drumeochallenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for something fun to work out on the pad? Here&#8217;s a paradiddle-diddle turnaround pyramid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4029,4034,4018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice-tips","category-rudiment-applications","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22660"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32048,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660\/revisions\/32048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}