Description
Flams. All around the Drum Kit. Snare, toms, bass drum and cymbal How to work with flams A) Triplets without flam RLR LRL B) Triplets with a flam on the first note RLR LRL C) Triplets with a flam on the second note RRL LLR D) Triplets with a flam on the third note 3ª Flam RLR LRL
Commentary:
Here is a series of exercises on flams some of which put the flam in quiet difficult and interesting, I hope, places. First of all, exercise number one. Same exercise a little faster, or variations on it.
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