In this lesson you will be creating another groove based on the Paradiddle Diddle rudiment that will involve switching the orchestration of the hands and making use of some dynamics. The basic orchestration is the right hand playing on the ride cymbal and the left hand will play ghost notes on the snare. An accent will placed on count 3 to give the part a half time feel. The accents and ghost notes are really what will make this groove stand out so it is important to get it right.
Without dynamics the hand part looks like this:
Then with all left hands switched to ghosted snares.
Spend some time on this hand movement making sure the different dynamic levels are all there. Listed below are some examples of this with quarter note kicks underneath.
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Example 5
TASKS
- Learn the grooves given above. Aim for a tempo of around 120bpm.
- Create further grooves using simple kick placement.
- Experiment with varying the orchestration.
