Paradiddle Exercises

Paradiddles are valuable rudiments as they improve your sticking dexterity and help to solve sticking problems when playing on more than one drum. When playing paradiddles on the drum kit the nature of the rudiment helps to make more adventurous tom-tom fills and interesting grooves.

R=Right Hand          L=Left Hand

Single paradiddle

R L R R L R L L

Double paradiddle

R L R L R R L R L R L L

Triple paradiddle

R L R L R L R R L R L R L R L L

When you are comfortable with the previous exercises, the following exercise will improve sticking dexterity.

Paradiddle Pyramid

R L R R L R L L

R L R L R R L R L R L L

R L R L R L R R L R L R L R L L

R L R L R R L R L R L L

R L R R L R L L