A Progressive, Grid-Based Approach to Developing Modern Licks from an Ancient Rudiment One of the most common ways to practice displacing rhythms so that they start on different partials of the beat is by applying them to the grid, which is a classic exercise that involves shifting the accent pattern back one subdivision at a time across a measure of 16ths or triplets. In this lesson we focus on applying the single paradiddle to a 16th-note grid. When playing paradiddles as 16th notes, you’re already accenting the quarter-note pulse. Keep a quarter-note pulse with your hi-hat foot to ensure that everything is locked in time. To shift the paradiddle to the “e,” add an extra left-hand stroke to the fourth paradiddle in the sequence. To shift the paradiddle to the “&,” add an extra left-hand note to the eighth paradiddle in the sequence. Repeat that process in the fourth measure […]

July 2020 Issue