Thursday, November 10, 2005
paradigms and paradoxes of the paradiddle
7:02 am | 
Posted by
Cat |
Driving in peaking traffic in yesterdays heat found me trying to get my head (or my hands) around this paradiddle business. My right hand is cooperative. My left...well, it's pretty much an almost useless appendage. Almost like an appendix.
It takes a fair bit of concentration to get it to do anything, and then, becuase I'm thinking about what should be automatic too much, the poor hand hesitates and the paradiddle becomes a paraflop.
3/4 of the way down Parramatta rd and I was finally getting there - Lefty was keeping up! A girly squeak of excitement escaped my lips and a feeling of accomplishment rolled on through...(if this is as far as I go with drumming, I can at least say I achieved one thing!)
...when 'Some Dude' drove past steering with his knees, drumsticks in hands belting his steering wheel at some inhuman speed.
I felt like screaming out "LOOOOOOK!! A PARADIDDLE!!!!"
xxx
It takes a fair bit of concentration to get it to do anything, and then, becuase I'm thinking about what should be automatic too much, the poor hand hesitates and the paradiddle becomes a paraflop.
3/4 of the way down Parramatta rd and I was finally getting there - Lefty was keeping up! A girly squeak of excitement escaped my lips and a feeling of accomplishment rolled on through...(if this is as far as I go with drumming, I can at least say I achieved one thing!)
...when 'Some Dude' drove past steering with his knees, drumsticks in hands belting his steering wheel at some inhuman speed.
I felt like screaming out "LOOOOOOK!! A PARADIDDLE!!!!"
xxx
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