We did one of these "puh-duh-duh" exercises awhile back. I like this sticking. It rolls off the hands nicely and makes for a relaxed warm-up.
This time though, we're going to add some paradiddles into the fold, making it more difficult on a few levels. Not only do we have to deal with the gear change between triplets and 16th notes in general, but often we're moving swiftly between double strokes at the triplet rate and 16th note rate.
Play the whole thing as written, with no accents. Then for a few variations, try keeping everything low, but accenting the single notes of the puh-duh-duh's, like so:
And also, with an accent on every beat, regardless of the sticking, like so:
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