Day 9 of 31 Snare Drum Rudiments - The Flam Drag. Grab your sticks and drum pad to rock out with Thackery Harris of @Sp3 Percussion and also ATL DRUM ACADEMY.
The flam drag is one of the most difficult rudiments to play, especially if you do not have your basics or standard rudiments down. Drummers who have been drumming for a long time at a high level can flip this rudiment in so many ways. It's a combination of 3 rudiments which is the flam the drag, along with flam accents.Knowing all 3 of these rudiments and being able to put them together is why music education or percussion education is so important. This rudiment is commonly used on the drum line during show music, drum solos, marching cadences and drum battles.
Shoutout to Mr.Thackery Harris for lending a helping in educating all of our followers and the kids at ATL DRUM ACADEMY as well. He is a BIG help to James Riles III and Bernard Smith of In Time Percussion. He has a strong background percussion history. He's been drumming for 30 years and has performed at places such as Georgia Tech, UGA, Atlanta Olympic Band and also first chair in GMEA All - State 2 years in a row.
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This video provides a comprehensive guide on mastering the flam drag, the ninth rudiment of the series. The instructor emphasizes that this rudiment is challenging because it integrates previously learned skills, specifically flams and diddles, requiring precise coordination and technical accuracy to execute correctly.
Hey guys, Bakri here. We are going to discuss day number nine rudiment,
the flam drag. So this is the ninth rudiment of January. Congratulations for making it this far.
The flam drag, coolest rudiment by far, next to cheeses of course, but very cool rudiment,
a little bit difficult to play because it requires everything that you've learned before
about your flam and your diddles. It requires you to be able to take all that information
and do it all at the same time. So cool rudiment, spend a lot of time practicing it right. So let's
jump right into how to do that. First thing, first part of the name is the flam. Make sure
your flams are solid. One thing that I see a lot of drummers do is they float their flams. They do
this. Unless you're a Swiss drummer or you're playing for visual effect, you don't need to do
that. Keep the lower stick down and let the higher stick do all of the action. First thing, second
rule, close your flam up. When you're playing flam drags flat, flam flags, flam drags fast,
say that five times. You're not going to have time to have your sticks doing anything other
than what they have to do. You're not going to have time to be raising your grace note stick
when you need to get that diddle in there. So first two rules, make sure your flam is
closed and make sure you keep your flam technically accurate. Second rule,
go back and review your diddles and make sure your diddles are solid. If you're still having trouble
playing a roll at low volume, you might want to go back and review that because
playing diddles softly while playing them solid, I like to call playing through the head,
that's a skill that you're going to have to master because later when you're playing on a snare drum,
it'll be much more audible when somebody is playing softly and their playing sounds very
weak. So make sure that you're able to play diddles silently yet down at tap level because
in a flam drag, the diddles are at tap height and your accent is at whatever height the dynamic
range demands or indicates. So flam drag, again, flam followed by a drag, flam followed by a drag.
Practice it starting with your dominant hand, which for me would be my right,
and also practice it with your non-dominant hand, which would be my left.
Okay, so that is rudiment number nine. Practice it with a check pattern. Everyone knows the flam
accent. That'll also highlight if your flams are played properly because you should hear three
distinct notes instead of, you know, some people who haven't mastered the flam, moving on to the
flam accent, they struggle because they can't close their flam up. So make sure your flam is closed
on your flam accent check pattern. Okay, then add the diddle in. So do it like a
typical check pattern exercise grid, slower.
