Rudiment split. Splitting up rudiments between your hand and feet. This is a great way of making simple rudiments sound nicer as well as being more complicated. For example: A paradiddle is usually RLRR-LRLL. However if you use this method you could do something like RKRR-KRKK or KLKK-LKLL.
A great way to advance is to use what you know, and add more to it to make it have more texture. Such as this example beat shown in the video. This is just a basic paradiddle beat, however by adding some little things it’s become a nice but challenging drum beat. He has used rudiment splitting, he’s replaced all the usual left hand hits with a kick drum heat; added a snare drum as a down beat on 2 and 4 so that it is similar to a usual beat and adding some hi hats to give it some more texture.
“Take something familiar and expand upon it.” As the examples show, he has taken paradiddles, which is a simple rudiment, then he’s turned it into an advanced technique by using all these new techniques.
32nd notes aren’t used a lot by “intermediate” drummers as 16th notes is the max. The theory behind it is that it’s just double 16th notes, so instead of 16 notes every bar, there’s 32. You just double up on the notes than 16th notes.
Here he is showing a paradiddle in 32nd notes. The challenge of this is the speed of it, as playing this at a bpm over 70 it becomes quite fast. He also uses rudiment splitting, where he changed the last two hits of the paradiddle to be on the kick drum.
Odd note groupings. Where you play fill or a lick but instead of the patterns being in 4, 8 and even numbers as they usually are, they’re in groups such as 5, 7 and 9.
The sticking here is RLRRK, with changes of what drum he’s playing on. These odd note fills can sound great, however if they aren’t played tight and well, they will sound off and pretty terrible. This is another example of rudiment splitting, which is a great technique as it has been used 3 different times in these examples, and it works in all of them.