A NEW Way To Play Paradiddles 

Can we get this guy more views? He’s seriously underrated. Great job bud! 👏

You are correct, Dave. Drumming is singles and doubles. The thing we, as drummers, need to do is learn how to make it interesting and musical. Our main job is to keep time, but we need to make sure we include texture in our playing. This is something that I strive for. I like your videos and the way you teach. You keep it real with the sticks hitting each other and not editing it out. It's like being there in the room doing the lessons with you. Keep doing what you are doing.

As a drummer who also loves paradiddles more than he should, I approve this lesson!

I love this lesson thanks alot

beautiful kit

amazing - great work

Love the video and the honesty. Well done mate. Keep up the great work.

GOLD! Thx so much.

Well done

Very nice. Great to see you back more 🔥🎶🥁

Nice! Thanks!

Fantastic lessons. Very well explained and easy to follow. Thank you!!!

Nice video as always mate, cool surname too 😉

Great Lesson , Dave !

You deserve way more subs Cheers dude

Nice one Dave! I've been working on all four for a few months now as part of my warmup, accenting the singles is dead cool and easier - especially in the 4th inversion! - than accenting the 1st of the 4 hits. Thanks, my warmup is going to morph to a 'main drill' for now with lots of tom work and the - paradiddle 'splitting'? Is there a term for playing different inversions together? I've also been working them on cymbals accompanied with bass - keep at it mate with the 1/4s on the hats it's fun when you get there ;)

Damn this shit was confusing at first. But I'll get it

Your inversion naming scheme has no 1st inversion (the standard "root position" paradiddle is not an inversion). You can keep the accent on the beat, or you can move the accent around. Murray Spivack taught them with the accent moved around, so that the inversions are displacements of the root position paradiddle. It doesn't have the technical challenges of accenting one of the diddle notes, but it has its own challenge of not accidentally shifting the accent to the beat at fast tempos, particularly when it's on the 16th note just after the beat.