Master These 4 Rudiments: Unlock Your Full Drumming Potential!😀

[@timwillard3887]

Thanks Brad ... Very helpful for practice time. The buzz roll surprises me, thought the paradiddle was going to be 4th

[@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity]

Some drummers will find the buzz roll much more necessary than others. If you play certain styles exclusively - country, classic rock or metal for instance, you could definitely get by without buzz rolls.

[@hellyermike]

I'm a former US Navy musician and I appreciate your thoughts re: rudiments. However, I have lately kind of evolved to a different way of approaching playing on the set. It has to do with Stick Control #33...rlrr lrrl or reverse for LH lead. This paradiddle hybrid, played as 16th notes, has transformed my drum life (roughly between 70-120 bpm). It can be played as even beat, shuffle or the 2nd L can be accented as the One Drop in Reggae. IMO, it's easy to execute (even by a toddler playing hands on a table top) and, on the set, you have instantaneous 'flow' because of the magical way that the sticking works. So...if we're talking in terms of a newbie starting with #33 and easily develops flow (and confidence) on the set and then combine that ability with rudimental study, seems like you would end up with the best of two worlds.

[@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity]

Thanks for your service. I'm always glad to meet other military musicians.😀 That's an interesting concept. I'll have to try it in front of the set. There are many different approaches. That's what keeps it interesting😀

[@sbradyork]

Thanks Brad nice ideas 👍👍👏👏

[@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity]

I'm glad you found it helpful! 😀

[@lobbyrobby]

I'm struggling to get a flam to work on my ekit

[@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity]

I don't have a lot of experience with electronic drums. But a lot of them have a way of changing the sensitivity of the pads. I would check into that.

[@seankelly1366]

Did you serve in the 3rd Infantry Regiment....The Old Guard?

[@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity]

No. I was with 10th Mountain Division, Ft. Drum, NY and 399th Army Band, Ft. Leonard Wood, MO

[@fahad.malick]

Thanks for the video Brad, can you give some exercises for Buzz roll? Like within a groove, a pattern where you can practice

[@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity]

Check out this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/jX7Lf6SHgaajesk Also if you want to practice in an actual groove, try practicing the groove to Harry Connick's version of little drummer boy. I really like this version and the groove here. Reminds me of Steve Gadd😀 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWmqoWONr6iCl5Ysi=5nWWEsR6gp7UNzXP

[@fahad.malick]

@ awesome, that’s great….. love that Harry Connick’s version and yea it does sound like Gadd :)

[@hawkshawhawkins9273]

Hey Brad, how about the Blushda? Gotta love it.

[@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity]

I will be honest. I'm not familiar with that😀

[@hawkshawhawkins9273]

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[@titomartinez5581]

Brad, The "blushda" is a fast flam-drag, orchestrated around the drums. Usually a left accent flam split between a tom and snare, followed by a left accent drag on the snare, repeated several times, giving kind of a 3 over 4 feel. You can also reverse the sticking, use different toms, etc. Tony Williams made it famous, and later guys like Todd Sucherman, Vinnie Colaiuta, and Gregg Bissonette adopted it. Makes for a pretty aggressive fill in jazz and rock situations.

[@titomartinez5581]

At the end of the day, it uses 3 of the 4 rudiments you described: a flam, a double (drag), and one single 😎

[@felixfelix7447]

I've seen paradiddles written with a small grace note before the LRLL etc. Sort of a run up...Is that the reasoning?

[@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity]

What you are describing is a flam paradiddle. The flam is an added ornamentation. Gives it a different sound than just having the accent. It makes the accent thicker or wider if you want to look at it that way. It gives the accent more sustain.

[@onemoremisfit]

I already know those rudiments all very well. Only trouble is I have the most miserable left hand on Earth, lol. My left hand is like a galley slave who has been chained to an oar, and whipping him harder can't make him row any faster. All the instruction, preaching and reverse engineered gimmicks guaranteed to give results "practically overnight' or "in no time at all" can't reach him either. Don't talk to me because I've already heard it all. Talk to the hand. It won't listen to me. The only thing it respects is brute force. Thousands upon thousands of hours of grinding. It never attains warm-up. It goes straight to fatigue and struggle. "Slow it down" they say. If it got any slower it would be going backwards. I've been slowing it down for almost 45 years now. Tell me, when does it start speeding up? One good thing, there is no quit in me (yet). I will grind that left hand every single night and the next morning it will wake up with its fingers curled in a loose fist like the legs of a dead spider and I will have to use the other hand to unravel it. It does show some small progress though, and that's the only thing that keeps me going. After a whole year of grinding, there is a tiny smidgen of progress. 2 steps forward, 3 steps back, and at the end of the year it seems a tiny bit better. Grinding ... I haven't played any music at all in over a decade because all I ever do is grind now. After about 25 more years of daily grinding, (when I turn 90), at the present rate I should be passably good by then, lol. Hopefully then I can resume playing.

[@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity]

I get a lot of questions about working on the weak hand. This week I will do a video about it. Watch for it!😀

[@timothyweiss619]

Thanks Brad, I must ask what this pattern is. RLRRLRRLRLLRLL. Is it a double paradiddle also. Thanks

[@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity]

That's not a rudiment per say, as far as I'm aware. It contains a couple of paradiddles but it's just a sticking pattern. Lots of sticking patterns can work. But the important thing is that they are organized. That makes it easier to improvise with them.

[@joerockhead7246]

haven't watched yet but guessing single stroke, double stroke, paradiddle, & ... i got only three.

[@JunkerOnDrums]

Buzz role - flam

[@BradAllenDrumsKansasCity]

The buzz roll is used quite a bit in most styles of drumming. I would definitely list it as one of the most essential.