The Fusco Brothers by J.C. Duffy for September 01, 2022

Needs more cowbell.

My normally brilliant favorite dictionary (Amer. Herit. 4th Ed.) has this:

A pattern of drumbeats characterized by four basic beats and alternating left-handed and right-handed strokes on the successive primary beats. [Probably imitative.]

“Probably imitative”? Probably?

(My own def.: paradiddle: a diddle that jumps out of airplanes.)

And his cousin’s a comedian. The doctor’s stethoscope picks up rimshots.

But can his heart do ’Take Five" in 5/4?

Despite his beret, Al is no Jerry Jazzman, let alone Joe Morello.

you stroke out with this one!<yellow

I thought Al played the saxophone. Maybe drums too, I guess?

all around talented guy

I’m going to tell my cardiologist he’s been wrong. I actually have an atrial paradiddle.

Gene Krupa!

Huh. I always thought it was taradiddle. Why would I want a pair of white lies?

Does he know the difference between a paradiddle and a flamadiddle?