what's your favorite rudiment?

oops. here's a better link anyway: http://www.pas.org/resources/rudiments/rudiments2.html

for me it's a toss-up between the good ol' paradiddle (i feel like i've really been getting in touch with my paradiddle lately), Swiss triplets, and the paradiddle-diddle.

on jazz stuff i'm paradiddle-diddlin' all the time, but the sticking i use half the time (RLLRRL RLLRRL) apparently isn't officially rudimental.

I think I'm gonna vote for one of those ratamacues, which I first heard about on this thread

Of these, I voted for the single paradiddle because it is the only one I have ever found useful in the making of actual music. And that only sometimes. At tempos between about 90 and 130 it can make for a funky fill. Otherwise, repeat these rudiments: The shot-and-a-beer, the sex-with-a-woman, and the not-playing-badly.

F# half-diminished seven

Whoa, I've never heard of some of those. Are they in that advanced, super-secret Stick Control II book that you can only purchase through time travel?

This one:
http://www.amazon.com/Accents-Rebounds-Drummer-George-Lawrence/dp/B000CDT4LG
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/19/00/e96a024128a05bd43d81a010._AA240_.L.jpg

Available from these sellers.

1 used from $206.00

No flamadiddle, no legitimacy.

flam paradiddle = flamadiddle

I voted for the single paradiddle because it is the only one I have ever found useful in the making of actual music. And that only sometimes. At tempos between about 90 and 130 it can make for a funky fill.

my favorite hot-sounding fill of the last couple weeks is like this, where the accented (capitalized) notes are played on a cymbal + kick drum:

RlrrlRllRlrrlRll

flam paradiddle = flamadiddle

OK, what about the flamadiddlediddle then?

OK, that's covered too. There's a host of triple-diddles you didn't mention, then.

I am bound and determined to delegitimize this poll.

Man, I gotta learn all this shit. :-/

Only if you want to be in marching band.

Screw traditional grip btw.

i love traditional grip!

traditional grip hurts my hand

(lol, maybe i'm doing it wrong.)

Traditional grip is great when you are marching with a snare on a sling, but otherwise, there's no reason to use it.

when it comes to end of this list and all the flammed mills and stuff, i kinda adopt that "eh it's okay that i don't practice that stuff, i'm not a drum corps nerd" attitude. but i would totally disagree on the usefulness of practicing rudiments in general, it's way applicable.

What's the name of that painting of the 3 USA dudes with snare, fife, and something else?

isn't traditional grip a good way to hit the drums "lighter"???

isn't traditional grip a good way to hit the drums "lighter"???

Whoa talk about starting a religious war now.

yeah, i like traditional grip because the stick rests in your hand more easily, and that + the angle makes it easier to play lighter. it just feels better for playing jazz.

besides, it looks cool, and that's really what it's all about.

i mean you can play loud with it too, but i still play matched if i'm playing a lot of backbeats/rimshots.

where's hurting to back me up here?

If you play trad grip, I hope you also tilt yr snare down to the right (if you are right-handed), as this was how trad grip is designed to be played.

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/5404/spiritof76mediumyp9.jpg

^^^ can't play a drum in a sling w/matched grip.

no, i tilt it away from me a little bit (whether i'm playing matched or trad). this comes from playing brass band snare drum where it's strapped on but not at an angle:

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/1412/11291640.JPG

anyway that's silly, it's super easy to play trad grip on flat surfaces

(btw thank you for arguing about drum nerd shit on ilx)

I stopped using trad grip after about 6 years of drumming, 'cause I just got a ton more control with matched.

Except for the first few years of HS marching band, when all the snare drummers had to use slings.

The hardest part about the sling wasn't trad grip, but the fact that the goddamned drum moves all over the place!

yeah, i would never use a sling that puts the drum at a sideways angle, but the other kind just takes some getting used to.

i don't understand the dudes who have their snare at a really pronounced angle towards them, that seems really uncomfortable (unless it's super high up, maybe).

I think my proudest bathroom graffitti-ing was where someone had wrote:

RLRRLRLL Paradiddle
RLRLRRLRLRLL Paradiddlediddle

I added:

UPDOWNLEFTRIGHTBABASTART Infinite lives.

I'm a terrible, terrible loser.

Also this is some crazy shit and maybe I will try some of these now.

RLRLRRLRLRLL Paradiddlediddle

^^^that's a double paradiddle, not a paradiddlediddle.

I never learned trad grip fwiw, but the jazz drummers that I like pretty much all use it.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

that code only gets you 30 lives, rather than infinite.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

6 way tie, ratamacue left out in the cold

Dang. Forgot to bookmark, forgot to vote.

I voted seven stroke roll. In general I think double-stroke rolls are the awesomest rudiment, especially when used in weird, rhythmically offset ways.