Favourite rudiment?

[Funkifized]

Anybody here got a favourite rudiment? Or something that they can rip across the kit? I personally love the paradiddle-diddle, or rlrrll. Steve Gadd was the first to rip it up. Can use in on crazy cymbal crashes too. Great crowd pleaser.

Oh, and Swiss army triplets too. Great fun, those.

 

[Frozen]

Paradiddles! Paradiddlediddle, Double Paradiddle, Triple Paradiddle. Yay! :roll:

ok, I dunno.

Can someone briefly explain drags to me? :wink:

 

[wired]

The blush-da! Oh wait. I meant, the swiss army triplets. *shifty eyes*

 

[turbochicken]

triple ratamacue

cool when you use it as a fill for shuffle swing songs.

 

[wired]

Can someone briefly explain drags to me? :wink:

I was never formally taught the drag. And I suck at it too. But what I can tell you is that, the drag is not a flam with an extra grace note!

So yeah, common misconception there.

However, read the practice suggestions on vicfirth.com
Do set your stick heights similar to a flam, but do not play it like a tak-fa-lam, tak-fa-lam.

 

[turbochicken]

hmmm, for drags,

just split the quaver into 2 semiquavers and play it the way you play a flam.
that should do the trick.

 

[Frozen]

K, I think I get the idea. Thanks.

 

[Funkifized]

I think the single stroke roll is UNDERrated... there are so many possiblities.

Try this.., (ALL SINGLE STROKES)

key: S = snare, RC - Right hand cymbal, LC -left hand cymbal, FT - floor tom

Rc S S Lc Ft Ft S* Ft Ft* S S S

(repeat phrase as many times as you want)

In triplet feel... as you can see there are 12 notes in a phrase.

See that snare hit with an asterisk? That's a crossover. Same for the floor tom hit there... it's more like moving back to the floor tom rather than a crossover.

I'm having a blast with it. :twisted:

 

[turbochicken]

it's not underrated.

rather, it's more difficult to master the open single stroke that's why it's not a fav rudiment.

 

[wired]

it's not underrated.

rather, it's more difficult to master the open single stroke that's why it's not a fav rudiment.

What's that? Some kind of oxymoron? :lol: