Crossword clues for paradiddle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
paradiddle \paradiddle\ n. The sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously.
Syn: roll, drum roll.
Wiktionary
n. (context music English) A percussive exercise (one of 26 drum rudiments) which involves playing four even strokes in the order ‘right left right right’ or ‘left right left left’
WordNet
Usage examples of "paradiddle".
Thenike played an effortless paradiddle with finger, then palm, both drums.
Thenike tapped out the paradiddle very slowly, beat by beat, then again, and again, getting slightly faster.
Brett said triumphantly, beating a swift paradiddle on the edge of the comm panels with both hands.
Used the nails on my right hand to tap softly on the bottom corner of the glass, where it was draped, on and off, faint little paradiddles like a mouse makes when he runs across above a ceiling.
We did paradiddles and rolls, and some of the men in the exercise room cheered at one or another of us.
Flags were exchanged -- a ritual apparently of some moment, for the ruffles and paradiddles of drum-like chatter rose to a crescendo.
The girl next to him, dressed in a red velvet undershirt and not much past the age of budding, was beating time to the grass music, her palms paradiddling on her thigh.
We did paradiddles and rolls, and some of the men in the exercise room cheered at one or another of us.
Thenike tapped out the paradiddle very slowly, beat by beat, then again, and again, getting slightly faster.