Saturday, October 29, 2011

3.5-a-diddles

So-called because it consists of three and a half "paras" (RL RL RL R), plus a diddle (LL), and I... never mind. I was hitting the practice pad along with an Illinois Jacquet/Wild Bill Davis recording (Blues for New Orleans, a very slow blues), and worked out this little pattern:


This can be very useful if you're working on your Jack Dejohnette "fast within slow" thing, or as just triplet solo vocabulary in 3/4 (convert the rhythm to 8th note triplets, in that case). This pattern does not change hands like a regular triple paradiddle, so practice these leading with the left as well. Once you have them together as single measures, combine measures as I've outlined previously.

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3 comments:

ggill1970 said...

very cool, Todd. i have been getting back to groups of 9s as jazz solo ideas. some of these reminded me of some of the ones i have been shedding lately.

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old stuff:

(1) RLL RLR LFF as S-S-S FT-RT-FT RT-BD-BD

(2) RLL FFL RFF as S-S-S BD-BD-HH FT-BD-BD or S-S-S BD-BD-RT FT-BD-BD

new stuff i am working after finding the sticking (i wrote in years ago) in my Morello book under table of time. the sticking was just a way to get back to the right-hand instead of alternating rights & left every other quarter note:

(3a) RL(R) (R)(LL) (RR)L as FT-RT-S S-S-S S-S-S

this was "ok" as hands-only, but flowed better for me as R(LL) at the end like so w/ an accent on the right-hand:

(3b) RL(R) (R)(LL) R(LL) as FT-RT-S S-S-S S-S-S

and w/ the BD subbed at the end (can be linear like 3c or layered in 3c1)


(3c) RL(R) (R)(LL) R(L)F

(3c1) RL(R) (R)(LL) R(LL/F)


3c transitions nice to right-handed RLF triplet fills (elvin/tony)

(3d) RLF RLF RLF etc.

ggill1970 said...

forgot a new 6 pattern:

L(RR) LRF as S-S-S RT-FT-BD

goes REAL nice into LRF LRF (Gadd style, left-lead "puddilies") or 9 patterns.

Todd Bishop said...

Excellent, thanks for that- I'll try that out!