At 11:46 PM 5/23/04, you wrote: >Anyone who has ever played a snare drum in a marching band knows that there is >another, echoic meaning for 'tarradiddle.' Often a tarradiddle is followed >by a >flam (or vice versa). Sorry RP, that's "PARAdiddle" defined by a continuous RLRRLRLL repetitivie stroke. Different accents make this a very versatile pattern indeed. resident lit-ideas drum theorist, paul ****************** Paul Stone pas@xxxxxxxx Leamington, ON ****************** ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html