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Billy Ashbaugh: Flam Accent

by billy ashbaugh on 01/29/2009 | 15,927 Views | 1 Comments

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Here's a look at the Flam Accent followed by a warm up exercise I like to use.   Â Example #1 - Flam Accent Slow     Â Example #2 - Warm Up Exercise @ 120 bpm      

Billy Ashbaugh: Flam Tap

by billy ashbaugh on 01/22/2009 | 17,548 Views | 2 Comments

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This is example of the Flam Tap and how I use it as a warm-up.   Hello Billy Ashbaugh here with DrummerConnection.com and today we're going to look at the Flam Tap. Now, I posted a lesson recently on the Alternating Flam where we're going to do a right and left flam and get use to raising the other stick up ready for that primary accented note. Now I chose the Flam Tap next because it fits in perfectly with this already existing rudiment. With the Right Flam, as you strike down with the right and the left comes up, your going to tap again wit the right hand. And then with the left. In time, slow it sounds like this. So as you can see, it's pretty much just an Alternating Flam like this. But you're going to add a note after the primary note for whatever flam. So it's right tap, left tap, right tap, left tap. And there you go, your Flam Tap. Nothing major, just making sure you get that tap in as you raise the stick. Nothing to it. I like to pu... more...

Billy Ashbaugh: Flams

by billy ashbaugh on 01/22/2009 | 16,184 Views | 0 Comments

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Here's an introduction to the Flam and Alternating Flam. Hello Billy Ashbaugh here with DrummerConnection.com and today I want to share with you the Flam. Understanding the Flam and playing them around the drum set can really add a whole new dimension to your playing. It's a wonderful rudiment to explore. With that being said, there are several different exercises and or rudiments that involve the flam. We'll be covering a lot of them in the lessons to come, both here and out in the Drum Room. I'd like to get started with the alternating flam. We'll look at the right flam first. What's happening here, is the right stick is going to be up higher and play the accented note. The left hand, with the stick, is going to be about an inch or so off of the surface whether you're on the pad or the drum. What happens is, a split second before the right hand hits with the accented note, you're going to drop the left stick down quietly as a ghost note and i... more...

Tribal Flam Tom Pattern

by King on 04/24/2008 | 20,093 Views | 5 Comments

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When in the woodshed one can often come up with some really weird stuff. Here I'm keeping time with my feet while playing a flam pattern on top. It makes for a really cool tribal beat when the two finally come together.