{"id":163,"date":"2012-03-13T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/13\/six-stroke-rolls-around-drums\/"},"modified":"2017-06-18T03:41:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T03:41:53","slug":"six-stroke-rolls-around-drums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/13\/six-stroke-rolls-around-drums\/","title":{"rendered":"Six stroke rolls around the drums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just cranking them out today. I&#8217;ve been using the last <a href=\"http:\/\/shipdrummer.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/first-inversion-paradiddles-around.html\">paradiddles around the drums thing<\/a> so much I decided to write up something similar using another familiar solo pattern, the six stroke roll (as it&#8217;s often called) in a sixtuplet rhythm: RLLRRL. What they really are is a paradiddle-diddle inversion. I&#8217;ve written them in 6\/8, but you can play them in 2\/4 as sixtuplets, or as 16ths in 3\/4, giving a 6\/8 <i>feel<\/i>, or as 16ths in 4\/4, for a meter-within-meter thing. Or as triplets within a fast 4\/4. I&#8217;ll write up an outline of the possibilities when I have the time. This rudiment is usually played with accents on the singles- I suggest playing these with and without them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-G-22HTAGqrs\/T1-LWfJsQnI\/AAAAAAAAA9k\/Zu5YAZxCFeM\/s1600\/Finale%2B2008%2B-%2B%255Bsix-stroke-rolls-around-the-drums%255D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Finale-2008-%5Bsix-stroke-rolls-around-the-drums%5D.jpg\" width=\"247\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Refer to the <a href=\"http:\/\/shipdrummer.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/first-inversion-paradiddles-around.html\">paradiddles post<\/a> for more ways of practicing these.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and go see <a href=\"http:\/\/haredrums.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/double-strokes-around-drum-set.html\">Andrew @ the Melodic Drummer<\/a>&#8211; he&#8217;s put up some around-the-drums conditioners of his own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdxdrummer.com\/downloads\/lessons_downloads\/drumset\/pdxdrummer.com_six-stroke-rolls-around-the-drums.pdf\">Get the pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just cranking them out today. I&#8217;ve been using the last paradiddles around the drums thing so much I decided to write up something similar using another familiar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[501],"tags":[171,14,23,54,93,131,132,254],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fillingsoloing","tag-around-the-drums","tag-downloads","tag-drums","tag-exercises","tag-music","tag-paradiddle-diddles","tag-paradiddles","tag-sixtuplets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxdrummer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}