Play Better Drums: Paradiddle Fill Ideas - Part 1

New lesson series with VF Artist Louie Palmer! Check back for Part 2 next week!
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[@dadmakesbadmovies]

Loving the sound of this kit.

[@AMDpc067]

Timothy Ace Holleran Yamaha maple hybrid?

[@bodhi9464]

Thank you for this great lesson .. I’m getting back into playing drums after 3 decades .. me time now ! Loving getting back on the remo drum pad and practising rudiments 🙏🏼🇦🇺😎 🎼 🥁

[@jmgreenf]

Getting back into the drums as a hobby after a 30 year hiatus...I can’t thank u enough for what u do..ur videos are helpful beyond words!

[@jonathanhaley9967]

Good to hear you have picked the drums back up go luck with your future drumming endeavours

[@arnolddoornbos]

Great! I really like this paradiddle fill! I also improved my technique a lot with this!

[@groovedoctor82]

Very clean. Very nice. Those drums sound great! Thanx for sharing 👍🏻

[@lumiyata]

Very, very nice!!! Great technic!! Congrats!!

[@jimbarcelona1078]

I watch and learn from ; presently three of you drummerrs, your tech. Is great and getting it ,most importantly, Your approach is great and right to the point.Thanks

[@dmitrybogatsky1734]

Great Lesson!

[@davidklepic6642]

Amazing, thanks!

[@db6259]

Great fill - good teaching. I tried and realised, that I need to play muller technic (up!!!) On the accent (tom) and so my hand is ready for the crash while the other hand fills with the double. That gives a flowing, consistant movement.

[@JulianFernandez]

Louie = worldclass!

[@johnrajswami5938]

Thank u so much sir love your exercise

[@jacobkaa4560]

Just great stuff you are a fantastik teacher

[@purklang]

Great. Thanks!

[@niloybasak1638]

Great idea. Love it

[@danielbatera3482]

sou fã desse cara ele é d mais... muito bom.

[@collinsitgreaves]

Loving the video, Louie! What ride cymbal is that??

[@larrywaraytv8172]

This man is really a drum teacher

[@thegreek169]

i prefer the accents on the 3 and fourth right hand sticking or playing the bass drum/snare paradiddle beat

[@hyperdriven08]

an you do a displacement lesson, Grooves & Fills

[@ThomasistheTwin]

Have your fill off the snare as one hand follows the other. Then switch lead hands as you work back up the toms. I try to do this with all fill patterns.

[@badoanh]

Your drum set sound so good. What pre amp do you use sir? I believe you have Audix D2,D4 on your toms. Right?

[@tdrum21]

Is there a part 2?

[@davidskrlj7979]

Hey umm where did you get that dope phone holder??

[@danlc95]

Goddammit, this dude is doing all my shit! Lol! I was going to do some drumming videos, but he literally took all the wind out of my sails for content...

[@TheSilpakorn]

Wow

[@elpabsaguilar8067]

hi Louie!! that sets cymballs use in this video?

[@drumken]

hey! Are those cymbals a HHX X-Treme on the left wich is bigger than the Legacy on the right? I also have a 18 xtreme and 17 Legacy, but my legacy is lower pitched than the Xtreme in my case :|. When I bought them I thought it will be opposite.

[@cabaret1316]

Grasias suuuupeeeermaster

[@JawJX]

Double stroke fills?

[@maschinemademan9053]

How to use push pull around the kit

[@martinhrusovsky1733]

I own the same (5pcs) kit ! :)

[@DopamineOverload]

I'm sure this question has been asked before but why the higher tom in the mid-tom position?

[@gregwilliams2764]

Louie. Can I buy just the "Flowing with Triplets" CD's & book? DVD? GREG

[@cave9440]

Is that just the same patten move in 3?

[@sebas.zgdrum]

yo llego hasta 140 bps cual es la tecnica para hacerlo mucho mas rapido...? El rebote o que ??

[@CF-tz1gl]

Does anyone have a pdf of this?

[@cave9440]

What is the patten in 9:00 ?please

[@comahakez9612]

What iphone application you use for the metronome?

[@PlasticJazz01]

The PDF link is broken by the way! very cool idea though

[@211marciano]

Hello, from Argentina, what metronome are using? Thank you. Very good your videos.

[@marcelotrujillo6574]

the link for the PDF is broken... could you publish it again?

[@lukepate8060]

How did this guy get this gig?

[@CF-tz1gl]

The PDF isn’t found on your website.

[@rjkade]

Hey, I was just wondering why you place your toms in that order? as in 2, 1 then 3 (1 being the highest and 3 being the lowest pitch) from left to right. I've noticed guys like Bernard Purdie do it. Is it an easier way for you to move round the toms or does make it easier to create more interesting seeing as your not always descending or someting? Besides that I really enjoyed the lesson.

[@louiepalmerdrums]

+RazzerKirk It does create some interesting fill sounds, yes and it's also more comfortable for traditional grip as the tom and ride are closer in. I first saw Virgil Donati use it years ago.

[@cMumbo]

Double strokes aswell

[@alexandrehamel-roy3840]

this drum kick sounds legendary

[@alexandrehamel-roy3840]

+Alexandre hamel-roy what's that ride ?

[@alexandrehamel-roy3840]

+Alexandre hamel-roy and that left crash

[@handidrummed]

The ride looks like a 22" Sabian Big & Ugly XSR Monarch and the left crash looks and sounds like a 19" Sabian HHX X-treme

[@kicksNdrums]

handidrummed hh big & ugly

[@Mechaniku_wyjazd_podany]

Hey. What ride cymbal are you playing?

[@ColinWilliamsDrums]

opcje it’s most likely a Sabian 22” Apollo ride I think

[@santiamato4005]

can you say which kind of drumheads did you use ?

[@ColinWilliamsDrums]

The toms to me sound like Remo ambassadors same with the snare. The kick is probably a Remo powerstroke 3

[@tdrum21]

This is great. PDF page can't be found though....

[@quartzide]

Here you go. vicfirth.com/louie-palmer-lesson-series-paradiddle-fill-ideas-1/

[@tdrum21]

Quartz, Taksa Aura-ek Awesome. Thanks!

[@sagarhirani4559]

Vin Diesel

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[@BMF396]

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[@olindacastelletti3686]

It is to’ much ok thank KZbin for hour lesson

[@dannygoodchild7568]

You sound great, as always !! I love your lessons, but I won't listen to them when, if you have the 10'' drum to the right of the 12' left. Most of us work in a band where there's usually at least one lead singer, and its better to have your toms in a descending order. The song is about the song, and not about me. I left you an earlier message, and was hoping to hear back. I'm 68 yrs. old, but I still have the passion.

[@vneal9847]

what drums are you using.

[@cMumbo]

V Neal mapex kit

[@pietrogirgenti367]

Yamaha, it could be a maple custom. It's not a mapex kit.

[@walterbonfantino3590]

What mic are you using?

[@louiepalmerdrums]

+Walter Bonfantino I use Audix mics. D2's on toms, D4's on floor toms and D6 on bass drum with SCX-01's as overheads.

[@walterbonfantino3590]

Ok thanks

[@cMumbo]

I'm not finding doubles very easy

[@harryhagman6063]

1:53

[@GETLifestyle]

that snare sounds like dave weckl's all day long....

[@Doogsay]

We need your mic up louder!

[@sonortubelug3853]

Dobby.

[@DylanL69]

If you play and practice your diddles you're not expanding your playing on the kit diddles are like the foundation of drumming it's in just about all the rudiments so don't be close minded

[@TheDragonDrum]

Wish you would break it down just a bit slower

[@stylesb959]

I mess around with accent ing the ah and and e , incorporating the cymbal was cool . Your sick

[@fapreese970]

Who knew vin diesel played drums and had a British accent

[@shredsixsixsix9218]

I doesn't work to my ear .Amazing technique tho . Even Palmer s having a hard time making this sound good . I think para diddle diddle was the one that works

[@awoodcoc]

+Shred Sixsixsix Sounds clean to me!

[@shredsixsixsix9218]

Yeah,clean technique ,i prefer slower fills . I hear a para diddle put to a groove,in the beginning of Meatloaf "Bat out of Hell" I like that one ,Max Weinberg on Drums .Correct me if i'm wrong ,i think he goes into Para diddles with a Triplet 16th feel

[@user-pp9xi1cx8s]

Paradildo.

[@bigspoon4949]

Why does he hold his sticks like it's a fucking pencil. Hes good but its just weird

[@ishandave3542]

+Jackson Lefebvre you definitely don't know much about traditional grip I guess

[@bigspoon4949]

Ishan Dave​ I wasn't trashing him I was just asking why he held his sticks different

[@ishandave3542]

neither was I thrashing you the grip he is using is called traditional mostly associated with jazz drumming it is good for marching and rudiments gives a feeling of the swing motion (atleast for me) not too good for moving around the drum kit tho.I guess I came in rude in my other comment.

[@misaelvillalobos8317]

its a traditional grip used alot in jazz

[@bigspoon4949]

Thanks!