Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pattern of drumbeats characterized by four basic beats and alternating left-handed and right-handed strokes on the successive primary beats.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously.
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- noun music A
percussive exercise (one of 26drum rudiments ) which involves playing four even strokes in the order ‘right left right right’ or ‘left right left left’
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The paradiddle is another important snare drum rudiment that will help one get a handle on the sticks.
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I never sat in a room and tried to copy records or practice a paradiddle.
ɘloЯ 2010
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I am very familiar with the paradiddle after having taught many beginning percussionsists how to play one!
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The basic paradiddle is played by the hands with the following repeating pattern:
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Or if one starts with the left hand the paradiddle looks like this:
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I take a deep breath and try again, spitting out a right-handed flam paradiddle-diddle, then a sound from the drum like wiping out on my bicycle, and my sticks come to rest with a buzz.
Moe Tucker 2008
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She uses fat marching sticks, her hands arthritic, weightless flam paradiddle-diddles tossed off left and right, her accelerando poised and controlled.
Moe Tucker 2008
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I take a deep breath and try again, spitting out a right-handed flam paradiddle-diddle, then a sound from the drum like wiping out on my bicycle, and my sticks come to rest with a buzz.
Moe Tucker 2008
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I'm fine with left-handed flam paradiddle-diddles because I'm right-handed, but Mrs. Karash expects me to alternate left and right, and to accelerando, until I'm playing flam paradiddle-diddles fast like syncopated rolls.
Moe Tucker 2008
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Finally, I get the flam paradiddle-diddles going and I begin my accelerando.
Moe Tucker 2008
chained_bear commented on the word paradiddle
One of the basic patterns (rudiments) of drumming, consisting of four even strokes played in the order ‘left right left left’ or ‘right left right right’.
So called (I am told) because you can think "pa-ra-did-dle" as you're learning to play one.
February 14, 2007
arby commented on the word paradiddle
Interesting c_b!
September 27, 2007