Diddles Drum Rudiments

Diddles – Drum Rudiments for Spirit Music Meet-Ups

Diddles – Drum Rudiments for Spirit Music Meet-Ups

Diddles - Drum Rudiments for Mike Burris' Lessons with Spirit Music Meet-Ups

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Rudimental Chart Collections containing Diddle Drum Rudiments:

Note: The Diddles category is really about about alternating Single-Strokes R L . . . with Double-Strokes R r L l . . . that have been “expanded/relaxed/loosened” into a more “opened-texture” like R L L or R L R R L L. However, if the Double-Strokes are kept “compressed/contracted” into a more “closed-texture” like R r L l, R r L l R, or R r L l R L, the emphasis is still on the alternating “rolling” of the Double-Strokes, which causes it to then be found on the Double-Strokes page. Now if the Singles and/or Doubles become so “compressed/contracted” that they become grace-notes as unspecified Note/Time-values connected as a Setup to a Principle-Stroke like rlR 3-Stroke Ruff, rlrL 4-Stroke Ruff, or llR Rudimental Drag, then these will all be found on the Drags & Ruffs page. The level of complexity and uniqueness of sound has caused others in history to classify them differently, but you really should view them as all related on a spectrum of open-to-closed texture.

General Studies of Diddle Rudiments:

Video – 22PWG: Transitioning out of Diddle Rudiments

Video – 22PWG: Singles to Diddle/Double Drills

Video: Drum-Tech-Stick Control- p 31 Gleaning from Drumstick Control, Jeff Moore – Diddle Builders

Video: Drum-Tech-Stick Control- pp 35-36 Gleaning from Drumstick Control, Jeff Moore – Diddle Chop-Builders

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3-Note Diddle Rudiments:

Note: Triplets is a general term for an artificially-notated Ternary-group of 3 notes in the place of 2 notes, but it can also refer to any 3 strokes such as Alternating-Singles R L R or L R L found on the Rudiments – Singles page, Front-Side Triplets R R L or L L R and Back-Side Triplets R L L or L R R found below, and R R R or L L L or rolled as R r r L l l . . . found on the Rudiments – Triples page.

Videos: Drums-Tech-Stick-Accents – Side-Triplets – Spirit’s Prophetic Wisdom in how to mix them up: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Video – 22PWG: Para and Side-Triplet Turnaround Accents

Video: R l l . . . Back Side-Triplets . . . r r L . . . Front Side-Triplets Combos on a Table!

Video – 22PWG: Side-Triplet Combinations

Video: Drum-Tech-Stick Control- Gordy Knudtson – Fun with Side-Triplets

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Paradiddle Pyramid of Single, Double, and Triple Paradiddles - Spirit Music Meet-Ups