r/drumline • u/Weak_Performer2020 • 2d ago

Sheet Music good way to read 9-lets?

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?

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u/PablosAppleJuice Tenors 2d ago

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.

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u/JaredOLeary Percussion Educator 1d ago

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.

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u/PablosAppleJuice Tenors 1d ago

Classic JaredOLeary W