How to Play a Flam Accent

The Flam Accent is a very important rudiment to practice because it works your triplet feel, your double sticking and your flams. Take a look at this video and I’ll go over the flam accent for you. In musical notation, the flam accent looks like this: The first thing to do is to play a […]

How to Play the Flam Tap

The Flam Tap is another one of those onomatopoeic words that early drum teachers used to teach their students how to play the rudiments on the snare drum. It’s simply a Flam then a tap and they are played with alternate sticking. Before you go any further with this lesson, make sure you understand what […]