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a little known christmas fact.....
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:43 pm
by ken k
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.
ken k
Re: a little known christmas fact.....
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:49 pm
by iiipopes
Ka-boom crash!
(Oh, come on -- tell me you didn't expect that!)
Re: a little known christmas fact.....
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:51 am
by Ken Herrick
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.
ken k
What did you expect, he was a drummer.

And then he had to get somebody to sing it!!!!! Bloody musician's labourers.........
Re: a little known christmas fact.....
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 3:05 pm
by MartyNeilan
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.
ken k
Buddy Rich could play the whole thing on one stick and still have time to individually curse out each bandmember.

Re: a little known christmas fact.....
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:37 pm
by ken k
my guess is he forgot his music and couldn't remember how it went.
k