It’s a funny thing, there’s endless online conversation about how to play an open roll, and virtually nothing about flams. They’re off the radar for some reason. And with the book Stick Control, NOBODY every […]
Category: flams
Left hand lead developer – for soloing
In soloing I tend to lead with the left a lot, and play a lot of normally alternating flam rudiments in only left hand lead form— in the past I’ve shared a couple of different […]
Snare drum workout in 4/4
Working out of Buster Bailey’s snare drum book Wrist Twisters— one of the great books of technical snare drum studies, by the way— I came across a simple pattern I liked, and I wrote up […]
Snare drum workout in 6/8 — 01
I thought I posted this weeks ago, but, if Blogger’s kind-of sucky search engine is to be trusted, it seems I haven’t. Best to find what you’re looking for using the labels at the bottom of […]
Stick Control patterns in 3/4, with flamacues
Another variation on the recent page of Stick Control-type patterns in 3/4, this time making a flamacue-type construction, with a flam right before the accent: Read the description of the previous variation for some technical […]
Stick Control patterns in 3/4, with flams and accents
A little companion to the page of Stone patterns adapted into 3/4, from the other day— here I’ve added some flams and accents to the sticking patterns from that page: Quite a few of the […]
Variations on Stone flam patterns — triplets and 16ths
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 […]
Todd’s methods: same-handed flam accents
This is something that came organically out of my own playing- it came up again and again in improvising for years before I finally analyzed it. The only place I’ve seen it mentioned since is […]