a little known christmas fact.....

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a little known christmas fact.....

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Though the Little Drummer Boy is credited with first playing the now infamous 'pa-rum-pum-pum-pum', he was actually attempting to play a double paradiddle.

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Ka-boom crash!
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schlepporello wrote:
ken k wrote:Though the Little Drummer Boy is credited with first playing the now infamous 'pa-rum-pum-pum-pum', he was actually attempting to play a double paradiddle.

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What did you expect, he was a drummer. :P
And then he had to get somebody to sing it!!!!! Bloody musician's labourers.........
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ken k wrote:Though the Little Drummer Boy is credited with first playing the now infamous 'pa-rum-pum-pum-pum', he was actually attempting to play a double paradiddle.

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Buddy Rich could play the whole thing on one stick and still have time to individually curse out each bandmember.
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my guess is he forgot his music and couldn't remember how it went.
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