Day 10 of 31 Snare Drum Rudiments with ATL DRUM ACADEMY. The master Marcus Hawkins of @marcushawkinsmusic takes us on a trip down the snare drum lane. So grab your drumsticks and drum pads and come get some of this great Music Education.
The ATL DRUM ACADEMY is on a quest to provide 31 rudiments in 31 days. Today's lessons comes from an awesome drummer, composer, and cinematography. The rudiment of the day is called the book reports which is a hybrid rudiment that consist of paradiddles, flams, and diddles as well. The are heavily used by advanced snare drummers and drum lines during marching season, competitions and of course drum battles.
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All right guys, Atlanta Drum Academy, 31 days of rudiments. This is day number 10. I am Marcus
Hawkins. Let's do some book reports. First things first, Paul Slivitz. This guy is the original
creator of the actual book report, or what he called them back then, Slivitz. Or what
as Ralph Vardaman called them back when he was teaching the Santa Clara Vanguard in 1992,
called them Slivs, right? So a lot of people called that particular rudiment the Slivs.
Go check out the documentary if you haven't seen it online. First of all, we have a regular
paradiddle. Go check out some of the other days in the actual month. I'm sure they talked about
the paradiddle at some point. So I have right, left, right, right, left, right, left, left,
right, right. Oh yeah. So I have my paradiddle. And on top of that, we're going to start
to build a beautiful dish of different types of flavors and different types of articulations.
The first articulation that we have here comes on the downbeat. So just instead of playing that
first accent as a normal note, I'm just going to play it as a double. So I have this.
You got it. Double. Yeah. Anyways, the next little extra pop of flavoring that I have that
comes up, it's going to be on the third note. So far, I've put a double on the pair.
The second note on the third note, I have a flam. There's two parts of a flam. The little portion,
which we call the grace note. And then I have the big portion, which we call the actual primary
note. So what I'm going to do is add that on here. So I have double flam, which is still going
to be on the right, right. And then double on the left. Flam left. Yeah. Beautiful, beautiful.
Two things to watch out for here. Thing number one, even though the flam is nice and small,
it's an unaccented flam, I still want a little bit of a separation between that little grace note
and then the primary note. So it can have a little bit of multi-three-dimensional sort of
flavor to the flam. Let's go ahead and add that in, going nice and slow.
One and two and ready and go.
Again, grace notes down. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll stop right here. Beautiful. Now,
the next articulation that we're going to add here happens on the fourth
partial or part of the actual rudiment. So, so far I have pair, ra, di,
dul. We're going to be adding something to that very last one. The thing we're going to be adding
here is just another double or diddle articulation. So I have da, da, da, flam, da, da. On that same
hand that I did the flam on, I'm going to be playing another double on the fourth partial.
Let's try it nice and slow. One and two and ready and go. And da, da, da, flam,
ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, flam, double, ba, ba, ba, flam, double. And never lose in sight
that basic pair diddle, right? Let's go ahead and take it up just a little bit.
What I'm going to do is think about them now in the sense of sixteenth notes, right? So instead
of taking them at 100 beats per minute, I'm going to be taking it at 80 beats a minute,
but I'm going to be thinking about them at sixteenth notes. So
Let's do it one and two and ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba. Very nice. Let's speed it up just a little
bit here. This is just 90 beats a minute. Let's do it one and two ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba.
Awesome.
Atlanta Drum Academy, 31 days of rudiments.
That was number 10.
I'm Marcus Hawkins.
Book reports.
Burr!
