How To Use Paradiddles To Improve Your Ghost Notes
Channel: Drum Lessons with Joe The Drummer
Date: 07/05/2023

Here's an introduction to how to use paradiddles to improve your ghost notes. By playing paradiddle patterns between the hihat or ride and the snare, you can create fun patterns that give you an opportunity to play ghost notes on the snare against a steady 2 & 4 accented backbeat. Each pattern challenges you to balance the loud and soft notes on the snare in different ways. 

This video focuses on the single Paradiddle and its permutations played as 16ths and accenting the 2 and 4 each time. To play the grooves I demonstrate in this lesson it's helpful to be able to play the patterns with accents as follows (v represents accents as the angled bracket is verboten):
v        v
RLRR LRLL (Single Paradiddle)
v        v
RLLR LRRL (Inverted Paradiddle)
v         v
RRLR LLRL (Diddles at the start)
v        v
RLRL LRLR (Overlapping Diddles)

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