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Teach your crow how to play paradiddle rudiments like a drummer!

My (limited) formal music training has been in percussion. When I learnt to play paradiddles (8 straight beats alternating hands as in LRLL RLRR, and other variations) I thought they sounded great when each hand plays on a different drum/cymbal, giving the feeling of a complex polyrhythm, but being fairly easy to play. I thought it would be a nice crow scripting training project to code these rhythms into crow!

In the video you can hear mostly the modes with a 20% chance of a rest, which give the rhythm nice randomized variations. I found that a synced delay (mimeophon there) went very well with it too!

Requirements

crow V2.0 or later.

Documentation

input 1: clock
input 2: crow will send alternating triggers from outputs 1 and 2, in a pattern that can be selected sending a given voltage to this input:

3V and up - paradiddle diddle (121122 212211)
1.5V to 3V - double paradiddle (121211 212122)
-1.5V to 1.5V - paradiddle (1211 2122)
-3V to -1.5V - double paradiddle, with a 20% chance of a rest
-3V or lower - paradiddle diddle, with a 20% chance of a rest

output 3: sends a trigger every 4th beat
output 4: 20% chance of sending a trigger every beat, useful for accents

Download

v1.0.0 - https://github.com/unit-cell/crow_scripts/blob/master/diddle.lua

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This is great. Love the simplicity of it. I am not a drummer so this was a new concept to me. Thanks for sharing!

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oooh I think this might be magic on a bassline actually. Going to try that today

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I’ve sent the triggers to sequencers and it sounds very nice indeed!

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My patch today was using two oscillator outputs from just friends and having their vcas plucked by each diddler channel. Did not disappoint.

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Would love to listen to it!!

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This is what I was talking about. Using the first two outputs from just friends

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Dang, that thumps. I’ve gotta try this out!

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That sounds crazy!! I need to try something like this too. And it would be nice to implement some simple v/oct melodies coming from output 3 or 4.

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Awesome stuff
Can it create a flam or flam-a-diddle As well
Seems possible With differently timed triggers ?
Can’t wait to try

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Thank you! I have not coded flams into it yet, but that’s a great idea :slight_smile: will look into it!

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