The Paradiddle is one of the 40 rudiments catalogued and classified by the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) as essential to drummers and percussionists.

This book brings you the same widely known rudiment, but imprinted with Latin Music ‘character’ and ‘flavor’, especially that of Brazilian music. Resorting to multiple combinations, it becomes possible to get singular sonorous results to the Paradiddles, when they are applied and orchestrated through the accessories that make up the drum set.

Some Brazilian rhythms are suggested to help bring context to this rudiment’s concepts and ideas. Along with Samba, Baião, and Ijexá, this book also brings Afro-Cuban rhythmic cultural language, through Nanigo.

Every proposal presented and suggested in this book explores the Paradiddles considering their countless and profuse variations, contextualizing and associating this rudiment to impulses and sensorial stimulus that drive and allow us to experience the mission of playing music, not just practicing the rudiment’s technical aspect.

Paradiddle is one of the most utilized rudiments by numerous drummers and percussionists worldwide. If you want to develop and improve your motor skills, interdependence between members, laterality, getting more vocabulary fluency applied to Grooves and Fills, among other technical skills, you just found in a single book all the mentioned resources. Paradiddle Planet is the book you need.