American Drum School Free Drum Lessons: 34 Essential Rudiments

AFTER BEGINNING PRACTICE ON THE 3 MOST BASIC RUDIMENTS The Mighty Two and the Single Paradiddle you can continue with more advanced rudiments.

There are movie clips of these and 34 other rudiments on these pages as well as the stick patterns for each one. To get complete teaching on all of the following rudiments order Drum Discipline Part 1 and Drum Discipline Part 2 on video or DVD.

Rudiments are divided into 6 categories: Single Stroke Rolls, Double Stroke Rolls, Multiple Bounce Rolls, Paradiddles, Flams and Drags.

SINGLE STROKE ROLL RUDIMENTS

SINGLE STROKE ROLL

      
R  L  R  L      R  L  R  L

see movie

SINGLE STROKE FOUR

1-trip-let    and
 R  L    R      L  

see movie

SINGLE STROKE SEVEN

1-trip-let    2-trip-let     and
R   L    R    L   R   L       R

see movie

MULTIPLE BOUNCE ROLL RUDIMENTS

Multiple Bounce Roll

R   L

see movie

TRIPLE STROKE ROLL

RRR   LLL

see movie

DOUBLE STROKE ROLL RUDIMENTS

5 STROKE ROLL RRLLR LLRRL see movie	6 STROKE ROLL RLL RRL see movie
7 STROKE ROLL RRLL RRL see movie	9 STROKE ROLL RRLL RRLL R LLRR LLRR L see movie
10 STROKE ROLL RRLL RRLL RL see movie	11 STROKE ROLL RRLL RRLL RRL LLRR LLRR LLR see movie
13 STROKE ROLL RRLL RRLL RRLL R LLRR LLRR LLRR L see movie
15 STROKE ROLL RRLL RRLL RRLL RRL see movie
17 STROKE ROLL RRLL RRLL RRLL RRLL R LLRR LLRR LLRR LLRR L see movie

PARADIDDLES

SINGLE PARADIDDLE

RLRR LRLL

 see movie

DOUBLE PARADIDDLE

RLRLRR   LRLRLL


see movie

TRIPLE PARADIDDLE

 RLRLRLRR   LRLRLRLL 
see movie

PARADIDDLE-DIDDLE

 RLRRLL 
see movie

FLAMS

Flams are played by striking the playing surface with both sticks, one slightly before the other, and one softer than the other. A flam normally notated by a "grace" note. We have chosen to represent this on the web by making the grace note, or softer note, a lower case letter.

THE FLAM

lR   Rl 


see movie

FLAM TAPS

lR  R  rL  L


see movie

FLAM ACCENT

1-trip-let    2-trip-let
lR  L   R     rL   R   L 


see movie

FLAM PARADIDDLE

lR L R R  rL R L L

see movie

FLAMMED MILL

lR R L R    rL L R L


see movie

FLAMACUE

lRLR lR

see movie

FLAM PARADIDDLE-DIDDLE

lRLRRLL


rLRLLRR

see movie

PATAFLAFLA

lRLRrL


rLRLLRR


see movie

SWISS ARMY TRIPLET

lRRL

see movie

INVERTED FLAM TAP

lRlrLR
          
see movie

FLAM DRAG

lR LL R    rL RR L

DRAGS

The Right Drag

llR 

see movie

The Left Drag

rrL

THE SINGLE DRAG TAP

llR L   rrL R 

see movie

THE DOUBLE DRAG TAP

llR llR L   rrL rrL R 

see movie

LESSON 25

llRLR

see movie

SINGLE DRAGADIDDLE

rrRLR
llRLR

see movie

DRAG PARADIDDLE #1

R llRLRR L rrLRLL

see movie

DRAG PARADIDDLE #2

R llR  llRLRR L  rrL  rrLRLL

see movie

SINGLE RATAMACUE

LlRLR L   rrLRLR

see movie

DOUBLE RATAMACUE

llR llRLRL  rrL  rrLRLR

see movie

TRIPLE RATAMACUE

llR  llR llRLRL  rrL rrL rrLRLR  

see movie

DRAG PARADIDDLE-DIDDLE

llRLRRLL rrLRLLRR

see movie

SINGLE FOUR PARADIDDLE-DIDDLE

LrlRLRRLL rlrLRLLRR

see movie

If you want great speed and control, practice these rudiments 15-30 minutes daily.

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