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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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Alternating flam rudiments tree

  • August 10, 2020
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Just a little throwaway graphic illustrating the connectedness of flam rudiments. People think of them as “omg a bunch of different things”, but they use very similar motions. The key rudiment here is the Flam […]

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Variations on Stone flam patterns — triplets and 16ths

  • January 15, 2015
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Lately I’ve been doing a lot with modulating between triplets and 16th notes, using similar stickings/coordination patterns. I’ve observed that it’s a thing with Elvin Jones’s drumming that he will play similar things in either […]

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Much more to do with 5/4

  • May 4, 2013
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If you’ve been using the pages o’ coordination we’ve been doing around here, you’re going to like what Sam Nadel has been posting recently— a whole bunch of stuff on playing in 5/4. He doesn’t […]

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