{"id":22341,"date":"2020-03-17T08:59:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T15:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=22341"},"modified":"2023-11-14T14:21:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T22:21:06","slug":"why-paradiddles-are-so-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/why-paradiddles-are-so-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Paradiddles Are So Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BSxYVWuErGo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You might know Dorothea Taylor &#8211; the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6wkCsnFRuwg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">godmother of drumming<\/a>&#8216; and purveyor of excellent rudimental technique &#8211; from her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/taylor.dorothea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">popular Instagram page<\/a>. She came to the Drumeo studio to demonstrate why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/rudiments\/paradiddles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paradiddles<\/a> are so important, and how to practice them in a way that doesn&#8217;t make you want to jump out a window.<\/p>\n<p>There are many different ways to practice paradiddles and push past the basic sticking. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/11-ways-to-make-rudiments-fun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">add accents<\/a> and even string together a few variations over a play-along track, splitting the strokes between different drums and cymbals.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to broaden your knowledge and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/stick-control-page-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improve your hand control<\/a>, check out this lesson! And be sure to watch the end where Dorothea plays along to a song randomly chosen for her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lesson Index:<\/strong><br \/>\n0:00 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Tush&#8221; by ZZ Top<br \/>\n2:18 &#8211; Introduction<br \/>\n6:38 &#8211; Paradiddle permutations<br \/>\n12:25 &#8211; Adding accents<br \/>\n24:11 &#8211; How to develop doubles<br \/>\n28:10 &#8211; Paradiddle playalong<br \/>\n33:54 &#8211; SONG: &#8220;Purple Rain&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/10111426\/234094-resource-1570632009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download the PDF to practice along!<\/a> And check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/\">Drumeo<\/a> for more lessons and courses from Dorothea.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve put together a playlist with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-find-and-use-drumless-tracks-and-play-alongs\">drumless tracks<\/a> at different tempos so you can practice these exercises over real music:<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1pPXjC7HbKSmU9chVYxvEb?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Dorothea:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/taylor.dorothea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dtdrummerlady1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dorothea-Taylor-1620533081317042\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothea Taylor &#8211; aka &#8216;The Godmother of Drumming&#8217; &#8211; explains why paradiddles are important and shows how to make practicing them fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":22486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4019,4038,4034],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drummers","category-full-lessons","category-rudiment-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341","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\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22341"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49154,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22341\/revisions\/49154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}