As mentioned in the previous article on Jeff Salisbury's Melodic Motion Studies for Drumset, Exercise 5 of  Part 1, will incorporate the ideas from the previous single-stroke exercises but using the rudiment,  paradiddle-diddle.

The book has four part each with increasing complexity.

Part One continues with exercises utilizing the hand-to-hand and double-strokes techniques with additional difficulty such as playing in sixteenth, triplets, quintuplets and introducing the bass pedal.

Part Two introduces 12 inversions of the rudiment the paradiddle-diddle executed across the sound capability of the drum-set.

Part Three looks at the many flavors of the single paradiddle as played on the different sound surfaces of the set. Here we see more of the application of the ride cymbal.

Part Four brings much fun and challenge with the application of the rudiment, the flammed-mill in the previously explored motion and sound possibilities of our kit.

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The video below shows the author performing exercise 5 of Part One of his book, Melodic Motions Studies:

-Joe