Skip to content
Thursday, May 21, 2026
CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!
  • Why “cruise ship drummer”?
  • Support the site
  • Guide to the archives
  • Get cymbals / books / merch

Category: flamadiddles

  • Home
  • flamadiddles
  • 5/8
  • downloads
  • exercises
  • flam accents
  • flam drags
  • flamacue
  • flamadiddles
  • odd meters
  • pataflaflas
  • rudimental

5/8 flam accents

  • May 29, 2023
  • 0

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, […]

  • flam accent #2
  • flam accents
  • flam drags
  • flam taps
  • flamadiddles
  • flams
  • rudiments
  • UAR
  • unnamed awesome rudiment
  • windmills

Alternating flam rudiments tree

  • August 10, 2020
  • 5

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 […]

  • downloads
  • exercises
  • flam accents
  • flamadiddles
  • flams
  • rudiments
  • snare
  • snare drum
  • Stick Control
  • Stone

Variations on Stone flam patterns — triplets and 16ths

  • January 15, 2015
  • 1

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 […]

  • 5/4
  • flamadiddles
  • jazz
  • odd meters
  • paradiddles
  • rudiments
  • Sam Nadel

Much more to do with 5/4

  • May 4, 2013
  • 0

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 […]

Recent Posts

  • Hello! This is a clone of the new CSD! site
  • Daily best music in the world: Tony Williams day
  • CYMBALISTIC: Shopify store coming!
  • Very occasional quote of the day: technique
  • Drummers as an inferior class

Recent Comments

  1. Anonymous on Everything at once
  2. Todd Bishop on CYMBALISTIC: Shopify store coming!
  3. Michael Griener on CYMBALISTIC: Shopify store coming!
  4. Todd Bishop on Transcription: Mickey Roker – Essence
  5. Anonymous on Transcription: Mickey Roker – Essence

Archives

Categories

Categories

Archives

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Copyright © 2026 CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER! Theme: Terminal News By Adore Themes.