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Left handed rudiments

  • March 10, 2025
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Collection of rudimental and quasi-rudimental patterns, starting and repeating with the left hand, that a student and I workshopped in a lesson recently. Good for strengthening your left hand, obviously; I find this orientation to […]

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Open handed redux

  • June 23, 2024
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This but just me looking like an A-hole This is a long one. This is what happens every time the subject of “open handed” drumming is raised online— a kind of church revival of drumming […]

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Flam combinations in 6/8

  • January 22, 2020
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Way too many wordy posts recently, with more coming, so let’s do a simple page of flam exercises in 6/8— in a triplet feel. Like p. 34 in Stick Control, but more robust. Whenever I […]

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Left handed rudimental study – 01

  • September 15, 2018
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This relates to my old, old same handed flam accents post, and my more recent left hand lead developer post. This is very left hand-intensive, with a lot of those same-handed flam accents I like […]

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Left hand lead developer – for soloing

  • June 13, 2017
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In soloing I tend to lead with the left a lot, and play a lot of normally alternating flam rudiments in only left hand lead form— in the past I’ve shared a couple of different […]

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  • flam accent #2
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Flam accent #2

  • October 9, 2015
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NOTE: Blogger is doing one of its occasional bloggery things, and the download is not working, despite me typing the link in correctly. Also the same handed flam accents in 7/8 isn’t working. Older downloads […]

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Flam accents in 7/8 — same-handed

  • September 28, 2015
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Well, it’s been a whirlwind of OTHER STUFF lately, hence the lack of posts— I won’t bore you with that. This came up while working with our recent John Zorn loop in 7/8; it’s a […]

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Stick Control patterns in 3/4, with flamacues

  • February 16, 2015
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Another variation on the recent page of Stick Control-type patterns in 3/4, this time making a flamacue-type construction, with a flam right before the accent: Read the description of the previous variation for some technical […]

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It’s a flam accent throwdown!

  • September 7, 2013
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Oh, it’s on.* I guess. At least, Sam Nadel has posted a nice flammed triplet warm-up, and, inspired by that, I wrote a similar one of my own, with flam drags, and same-handed flam accents, […]

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Todd’s methods: same-handed flam accents

  • May 27, 2011
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This is something that came organically out of my own playing- it came up again and again in improvising for years before I finally analyzed it. The only place I’ve seen it mentioned since is […]

Shifting triplacues? Something?
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Shifting triplacues? Something?

  • January 10, 2026
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I don’t know what we call this, “triplacues”? Quasi-irregularly spaced (in this case) flammed triplets, with a accent after the flam, flamacue style? …look, if there was ever any qualm about giving something drumming related […]

Ultimate paradiddle builder – 01
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Ultimate paradiddle builder – 01

  • May 7, 2025
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Ultimate until I need it in some other form. I already see some other things I could have included. Don’t believe everything you read. This expands on an approach taken in Mitchell Peters’s Rudimental Primer, […]

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