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5/8 flam accents

  • May 29, 2023
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Page of rudimental patterns in 5/8, based on a flam accent #1. We’ve just extended it a couple of notes. You could connect some of these with a whole lot of rudiments: flam drags, pataflaflas, […]

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New rudiment: Swisscues

  • February 13, 2021
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New rudiment time: a flam rudiment combining a Swiss Triplet and a Flamacue. It’s so basic I can’t imagine it doesn’t already exist somewhere, but I’m not digging through the lists of 50,000 hybrid rudiments […]

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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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Odd meter Harr: flamcues in 5/8

  • January 12, 2017
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Another Haskell Harr etude transcribed into 5/8, this time one of the flamacue studies on p. 79 of book 2— I only use book 2: As in the original, the number 5 or 7 next […]

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Snare drum workout in 6/8 — 01

  • March 28, 2015
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I thought I posted this weeks ago, but, if Blogger’s kind-of sucky search engine is to be trusted, it seems I haven’t. Best to find what you’re looking for using the labels at the bottom of […]

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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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Snare drum workout in 2/4

  • July 22, 2014
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Easing back into posting stuff, this is a short snare drum workout in 2/4, based on a simple accent pattern, developing a quasi-rudimental, flam drag/flam accent/flamacue-thing I improvised while warming up on a practice pad. […]

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