Drums/Percussion Grade 8: Rudiments

What you'll learn

1. 1

   Grab your drumsticks! 🥁 A flam is when you hit one stick slightly before the other — it sounds like a big 'crush' instead of one tap.

2. 2

   Which stick hits first in a flam?

3. 3

   Practice your flam on the virtual pad. Tap the left pad first, then the right pad — but make the first tap much softer and quicker!

4. 4

   Let's write a flam pattern. The grace note is smaller and higher than the main note.

5. 5

   Now try a flam with your right hand as the grace note and left as the main note.

6. 6

   In a flam, how many notes do you actually play?

7. 7

   What's the special symbol for a grace note in drum notation?