paradiddle
Sep. 3rd, 2009 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordparadiddle - n., a quick succession of drumbeats slower than a roll that alternates strokes from the left and right hands in a L-R-L-L or R-L-R-R pattern.
With all sorts of variations, of course. You can start with Wikipedia's list and go from there. Coined in the mid-1920s from diddle, which in drumming is two consecutive strikes from the same hand, which seems to be from the slang meaning of moving back and forth rapidly.
---L.
With all sorts of variations, of course. You can start with Wikipedia's list and go from there. Coined in the mid-1920s from diddle, which in drumming is two consecutive strikes from the same hand, which seems to be from the slang meaning of moving back and forth rapidly.
---L.
