The Pad – Exercise 10 – The Diddles

The Pad – Exercise 10 – The Diddles

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The Pad - Exercise 10 - The Diddles

This week's pad exercise is the last of the The Pad series and focuses on diddles.

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I hope you’ve enjoyed the practice pad Wednesday series we’ve run for the past 10 weeks. If you’ve missed some, you can view them all HERE. We will be replacing the series with another series … right now we’re considering a snare drum solo series, but if you have an idea for another series let us know in the comments below!

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Publisher of OnlineDrummer.com, Alfred Publishing author, Ddrum artist, and veteran Drum! Magazine contributor, Nate earned his Bachelor of Arts in Education at John Carroll University and Master of Arts in Education at the University of Findlay.

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