In this lesson I will show you a simple orchestration of the Inverted Paradiddle that orginally used ride and hi hat cymbals. It will be very beneficial to have covered this lesson first as all examples on this page are just variations on those grooves. You can find a link to this, and other useful lessons at the bottom of the page. In later lessons I will show how you can combine this with other construction methods to create even more complicated patterns.

I'll start by showing you just the hands for these groove patterns. All it is is a simple 'one hand on each drum' orchestration where the right is based on a cymbal and the left plants on the snare but plays as ghost notes. When you hit a back beat the left hand switches to an accented stroke. All with an inverted paradiddle sticking, obviously.

The hand part for the ghosted inverted paradiddle


Full Groove Examples

Adding kicks will be very similar to the previous lesson. I won't give anything too complex here, just simple eighth and quarter note style patterns. In later lessons you will learn about sixteenth note kick and snare placement as well as other more complex ideas.

Example 1

Adding kicks to the groove.


Example 2

Adding kicks to the groove.


Example 3

Adding kicks to the groove.


Example 4

Adding kicks to the groove.


Example 5

Adding kicks to the groove.


TASKS

  • Learn the 5 grooves given above. Aim for a tempo of around 120bpm.
  • Experiment with varying the orchestration.
  • Add a left foot count to the part.
  • Create your own kick parts based the given ideas.

Lessons

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