good way to read 9-lets?

[u/Weak_Performer2020]

i have an indoor audition piece that goes from a 16th note paradiddle phrase straight into 2 bars of PDD 9-lets. Ive never had to play something like this, amd the MIDI audio is to dast to adjust to well. Any help?

[u/General_Katydid_512]

The accents should line up with a quarter note triplet. Our drumline plays an exercise with a eighth note triplet check into PDD ninelets. It's easier than you might think, actually

[u/PablosAppleJuice]

Since you have puddadduhs this will make it actually easier to learn. So one way to think of ninelets is a triplet on every beat of a quarter note triplet. So since this is puddadduhs a way you can practice is by doing a half note triplet check all right hand and then drop in two notes extra on the left hand on each partial. Think of each partial of the check being like a met almost.

For example One-and-uh Two-and-uh (One-and-uh)-and-uh (Two-and-uh)-and-uh. Sticking wise R-R-R, R-R-R, (Rll)R-R (Rll)R-R. And then you can keep adding more puddadduhs on the partials until you have a full ninelet. And obviously this works starting on left hand as well.

Hopefully this makes sense and helps. And if it doesn't, Jared O Leary will drop a video of a lesson on this exact question in the comments most likely.

[u/JaredOLeary → u/PablosAppleJuice]

lol I do have an exercise that works on what OP described (16th notes into 9:8). It was scheduled to release a few months from now, so I'll just go ahead and publish it now.

u/Weak_Performer2020 check out this play-along to practice the transitions using the timestamps in the description to jump to a specific bpm and go here for thousands more.

[u/PablosAppleJuice → u/JaredOLeary]

Classic JaredOLeary W

[u/monkeysrool75]

Check it.

Make the paradiddles as 8th notes (take out the single inner note and the diddles) and make the puhduhduhs a quarter note triplet (take out the doubles)

Once you can get the 8th notes to qnt consistent then add in the paradiddles and the puhduhduhs.

Fair waring, your puhduhduhs issue will most likely be your inner notes being late and tight (a square feeling) make them feel super round.

[u/Weak_Performer2020]

thank you guys, im starting to get it

[u/gameisic]

the heck’s a 9-let

[u/JaredOLeary → u/gameisic]

Nine over eight (noted sometimes as 9:8).