{"id":6913,"date":"2012-04-24T10:21:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T10:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2012-04-24T10:21:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T10:21:01","slug":"flam-paradiddles-pataflaflas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6913","title":{"rendered":"Flam paradiddles & Pataflaflas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across the term flam paradiddle<\/strong> on the radio the other day and thought at first it might be used to describe some kind of movement – maybe a dance move or a skateboarding trick. Now I know that a flam paradiddle one of the patterns or rudiments used in drumming, or rather a combination of those rudiments.<\/p>\n

A diddle<\/strong> is “a double stroke played at the current prevailing speed of the piece.”<\/p>\n

A paradiddle<\/strong> “consists of two single strokes followed by a double stroke – i.e. RLRR or LRLL”<\/p>\n

A flam<\/strong> “consists of two single strokes played by alternating hands (RL or LR). The first stroke is a quieter grace note followed by a louder primary stroke on the opposite hand. The two notes are played almost simultaneously, and are intended to sound like a single, broader note.”<\/p>\n

A flam paradiddle<\/strong> is “a paradiddle with a flam on the first note. Also known as a flamadiddle.”<\/p>\n

Source: Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

Another interesting term used in drumming is a pataflafla<\/strong>, which is “a four-note pattern with flams on the first and last notes.”<\/p>\n

The etymology of these words is obscure.<\/p>\n

So if any of my friends who are into drumming start talking about flam paradiddles or similar, I now have an idea of what they mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across the term flam paradiddle on the radio the other day and thought at first it might be used to describe some kind of movement – maybe a dance move or a skateboarding trick. Now I know that a flam paradiddle one of the patterns or rudiments used in drumming, or rather a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}