Finally a new video lesson for you. It’s not only for beginners. I often meet drummers who have multi-year experience but never played the Paradiddle. Hard to believe but true.
The Single Paradiddle is a melodic rudiment, it isn’t straight like the single stroke roll and doesn’t have the typical rolling sound of a double stroke. The Paradiddle generates a kind of wavy, pulsating sound and enables you to play very interesting figures and grooves.
It’s a bit sad but i couldn’t find enough time to update dooDrum.com on a regular basis so far. Another sad consequence is, when a site seems to be dead it will attract hackers to come over and play. That’s what happened to dooDrum.com recently. Somebody hacked the header.php of the WordPress theme i was using.
I’m very sorry for the trouble you may have encountered when you visited this site!
The good news are that dooDrum.com is no longer a danger zone. And i’m already working out a new concept which will be more fun and up-to-date. I also have some surprising news to tell – you will see soon.
So far, have a good time and keep things rolling!
One year ago the great Big Band Drummer Louie Bellson died aged 84.
Louie worked with Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Benny Goodman, just to name a few. He was also a composer, arranger and the first drummer to play a double bass set up.
When you think of the greatest original Big Band Drummers you must think of Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa and Louie Bellson…
I’m happy that you like my demonstration of the Bo Diddley Beat.
And because many people asked for it, i will also give you the mp3 sound file of that cool drum groove.
It’s the same thing that you can hear in the original flash file but you can do with it whatever you want:
Use it as a play along, edit it to get longer loops, even share it with your friends, teachers and students. dooDrum.com owns the copyright of this file and gives you the permission to mess it up ;)
Only 2 little no-go’s: Don’t use the file for commercial reasons! Instead, tell everybody about the creator dooDrum.com.
I hope you have fun and get some inspiration…
