5 Smokin' Flam Exercises For Serious Control

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[@RobBeatdownBrown]

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Rob Brown what’s going on my guy what do you think about interstellar love by Thundercat. The bass line and drums are sick give it a listen if you can .

[@jasonstevens3360]

Brooooo, amazing Grove and technique, and I love the sound of your pad with your snare, the slow-mo was awesome as well. I totally appreciate all that you do for the drumming community. I've been following you since the first snare tuning video, and I have to give you props on staying healthy and fit, you still look like a totally different person, keep it up, And God Bless.

[@keithe.bilitsky833]

Mr. Brown what is that metronome called , I'm so old l'm not hip anymore ?

[@markdemell3717]

I love the flam , flam out hard. Rob Is a Flamming star.

[@sebastiannielson1952]

Lol. Flamuel L. Jackson😂

[@markdemell3717]

I like the name ,funny . How about ,,,ROB FLAMMERMAN? NOT THAT FUNNY EH?

[@jimkeogh8552]

I've "played" for over 50 years; I have taken your channel as an opportunity to re- learn to celebrate my retirement from my day job. Re- patterning my brains and hands is humbling, but even better, challenging and exponentially gratifying. Time to get me a hoodie to celebrate.

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Enjoy retirement!!! :)

[@jimkeogh8552]

@@wurdofwizdumb1928 thanks.

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[@MrRezRising]

1985, NYC, my second drum lesson in the East Village. Teacher introduces me to swiss triplets. Remember the moment you met your spouse...? Everyone has a "forever rudiment". Apparently mixing up a couple notes with a flam is mine.

[@TrueAdamRipaStory]

Best drum teacher on KZbin, trust me I’ve been quarantined watching a lot of lessons. You are by far the most intricate, detailed, and entertaining teacher on KZbin. Thanks rob! Oh and Stephen Taylor is also great!

[@teddreger6973]

Rob, Best Flam exercise out there!!!! Your way of explaining and simplified notation approach has allowed me to make more flam progress in the last week than I have in the last 30 years. Keep em coming!

[@willyfleming999]

Hell yeah! I love my flams and Rob's lessons are dope. Let's do it!

[@andreasbreitwieser1449]

Rob: You can go your entire life without a flam and you will be fine...... Tony Williams : YES !!!!!

[@danmsdrums284]

Omg I LOVE this vid. Whole shape of my quarantine weeks just evolved.

[@evamalmberg]

Great job, Rob👍 I will do these exercises!

[@mattchambers5520]

Love you my friend! The way you teach is awesome!!!

[@beaudalleomusic3525]

I’m not a drummer primarily (I play/arrange them on my own songs), but let me tell ya - this is one incredible channel! I’ve learned so much as someone just looking for a leg up in terms of what I’m doing with percussion. Rob, you’re doing some awesome stuff!

[@krugerschubaltz4806]

What a way to teach, clean and very understandable. Congrats! Amazing stuff, always big fan of your drum video sessions! Thanks for teaching rare and important material!🔥

[@wallyjericho]

Mr. Brown...I hope you are doing well in this time of isolation. I know it must be frustrating to have your powerful energy contained at home, but let it be known, your light still illuminates the path for aspiring drummers. Thanks to your guidance, I am now feeling the “power of the pinky” on my left hand! I still have no great speed, but practice of rudiments each day is forming smoothness and consistency. This is what Your light has grown! ...and I love my “Groove Responsibly” T-Shirt!

[@nateh9197]

I've been really getting into rudimental drumming during quarentine and I just discovered your channel and you're amazing

[@martinooo29]

Nice musical flam exercise I am digging it, Great work !!!

[@tjmati5204]

"Flamuel L", 😆 Good one Brother!

[@KenNickels]

It's better than Flim flam man.

[@wunoteu]

Thank you Rob! Really nice. I'm working them with both grips!!

[@farhanmaqbool9286]

Thanks mate, following your lessons, working on 3 rudiments exercises, and accents on singles. Much Appreciated

[@mrmisfit635]

Thanks for takin' us ta school!

[@peppertennis]

Another good un..... love your stuff Rob Brown

[@jayallendrums8469]

Thanks rob!! Love your videos!!

[@bbradleyish]

Love your teaching style 🙏🏼

[@Mudge07]

Highly Flam-able, it’s always cookin’ with RB. 🔥

[@ryangroom2959]

Good old flam mills 👌 Yeah I’m proud of myself for knowing the name of that first one

[@mullrump2]

FLAMTASTIC!

[@eduardocastro7343]

thank you Rob,these rudiments are very interesting🥁🎧🎵

[@devolta]

Great video as always Rob.

[@paolomatozzi5698]

Fantastic exercises, truly musical. They are also a great stimulus for my stupid weak hand, as they take turns to command the downbeat. Great Rob, thank you for sharing.

[@klebermartins483]

Thanks .great exercise teacher Rob . one of the three rudiments more important.valeu Rob

[@dennisstgermain442]

Staying Socially Distant in FL .............thanks for the videos during this challenging time ......now , back to the practice pad !!!

[@warehouse6737]

Great Exercise Rob... 👍 Keep them coming Bro... 🥁

[@libertystrikes8704]

Your videos make me happy, especially during these isolated times. Now please make some merch in lady sizes!

[@trishramsay1771]

Just learning but love your lessons❤Thanks so much from Australia 🙃

[@earlgolding5845]

Great job, clear & easy to follow & understand

[@TheUnwritersOfficialChannel]

Great lesson Rob.. Our drummer had a fantastic teacher in Paris, long long time ago (Ok, we're old :) ) and his master taught him the same way.. Plus, the outstanding master "Flam-Rolls" Roulements avec des Fla (Flams).. The flam's technique is amazing and gives you an extraordinary power ;) Really glad to see a drummer like you, explaining this.. Thanks.. Cheers from Italy.. Stay safe and take care.. Keep on rolling and drumming and teaching as you do!

[@jimbarcelona1078]

Love the flam workout, this one I got it down pat! Take care man,be safe ,we care alot abou tyou man,Flamuel L Jackson too funny!

[@InYourDreams-Andia]

Flam lover here. I'm going in deep. I think it doesn't matter how you play the alternating flam accents, more that it's a case of navigating the combinations (or single) accents in a bar of 4. As in, accent every 1, then 2, until 4, then accent pairs, 1+2, (1+4 is Ace), then switch to 3/4 or 6/8 and accent in on order every successive note. To spin these up in 16ths as you do from 8ths, is the goal

[@mullrump2]

FLAMBUTEOMOL!!(performance enhancement 🤪) great stuff dude... excellent extension of your new year rudimentary vid...keep safe. 👍

[@petervanderlaan9187]

Good stuff as always Rob. Could you show in particular, {or tell) some of the flams you use in your shuffle grooves. I love that short and quick flam tap or flam accent you use on the snare. I cant seem to fit it in the correct place. example with sticking would be awesome. Thanks, Pete the Beat V.

[@tuan_6n604]

Great. Thank you

[@jgdevoe]

Ok, after watching several times I get what is happening here. ONce again thx Rob.

[@eduardomarjan]

Great lessons, Rob!! Beautiful channel greetings from Argentina.

[@claysmell]

back for the BEATDOWN!

[@paradiddle5150]

Thanks Flamuel!!!

[@davidolbum3484]

seriously Rob, I just realized what a lazy drummer I am. Well, not much else to do right now, so I'll work on stick control. Thanks for the vids.

[@ragu168]

Good stuff 👍 as always!!!

[@jimbarcelona1078]

Love this one ,I add the one , one, two two, three three all the way to five then drop to four four and back to one one, etc. Slow. Then fast high then low. as usuall thanks man.

[@ja773r]

Great exercises thanks. Some great ideas. I’ve been playing the flammed mills for a while and I’d also played the five pattern but some of the other stuff I hadn’t seen. One great thing I found with the flam mills is that you can move the accent through a grid. Ex. One bar with the accent on the 1.into one bar with the accent on 2. Into one bar with accent on 3. Into one bar with accent on 4. And finally two beats of 16th notes to get back to playing the accent on 1 (rather than having to play a double flam to get back to 1. ) One other exercise I’d found with these is to play a kind of 7/8 paradiddle. Two flammed mills into one flammed mill double paradiddle (lRrlrlr) then repeat starting on the opposite hand. This gives a nice 7/8 . I’m no expert but I love playing with flammed mills. Yours is the first video I’d seen showing some creative ways of using them. Great content. Thanks x

[@johnrobinson8323]

Flamtastic video!

[@primeintensitytrainingpit9908]

Awesome exercises!!!!😮

[@BoomJitsu]

Flamuel Jackson is the best thing I’ve ever heard.

[@charleswoods8471]

Thank you for sharing.I appreciate what you do for us.Mad skills dude,just mad skills.Keep the beat Doctor Jackson???Bobby Brown you're the man man.

[@fabioinnocenti534]

Thank you very much from Italy!!! 👏👍🏻🥁

[@carlosguillen2307]

These exercises are hot fire. FLAMS RULE!!

[@Oliphunk]

I really like the first exercise. Its both challenging and easy at the same time

[@BobSchoepenjr]

Rob Brown is a brand, period.

[@daleitis2732]

Being lefty is actually so good sometimes, can mirror everything you do

[@japaobateradrums2067]

Eita pegaaaa toop lembra-se bateras unidos jamais serão vencidos 🥁👍

[@thenathancraig7]

I got those VA All state auditions coming up, gotta get those flams clean! Flam-a-diddle-diddles suck also you gotta do a video for those things man😂

[@legacyShredder1]

I've been using the Swiss triplet exercise identical to yours for about a year now. It seriously works Edit: Correction, I do the Swiss Triplet, but I use a flamed Rr Ll Rr turn around (Flam on the first R and first L.)

[@mullrump2]

FLAMBELIEVABLE!

[@GSWeb8]

Solid

[@Ms74Biker]

Nice video,man.

[@joevaughan5719]

Flamah-Jamah!

[@JoeNocella]

Nice exercises. Gotta love flams..

[@justincooper233]

Flamuel L Jackson got me 😂

[@DolkkarToyznstuff]

I'm glad that when it comes to the Flam, you're not the Flim-Flam man. Haha! Cool video!

[@rpennington9]

On one of your videos you speak about getting comfortable with all of the subdivisions(of the count).I would ask if you could do a 10-20 minute exercise for beginner/intermediate level with moving between the subdivisions(especially the triplets).Thanks...BTW you have the BEST drum channel on the YOU tube!!!

[@peteryyz43]

Rob ,this is a phenomenal flam lesson. I'm really surprised however,that you didn't mention to students that these stickings are the Single Flammed Mill and Swiss triplets?

[@naterace7]

That last flam excersize 🤯

[@mullrump2]

FLAMBUNCTIOUS!

[@clayfoster8234]

So I’ve fixed my messed up technique and while not blazing fast yet I have good control with my finger control. But the problem I’m having is transferring what I can do on a pad to the kit. Got a video for that?

[@tootallforbaseball]

Drum set flams are a different animal than rudimental or drum corps flams... Drum set flams are very open, and both notes are "nearly" equal, vs a drum corps flam, where the grace note is very soft, the primary note is much louder and the notes are very close together.

[@christee299]

Oh wow. That's interesting!

[@cristinajamma3497]

So the flam on the diddle? A flamadiddle like ..very cool

[@stickman5454]

Rob smooth stuff. To those watching who might think this is too marching band (my initial thought) or not rock band enough.. these exercises will give you great hand speed and if you pay attention some tips for feel which as Rob knows is hard to teach. That being said if you watch and learn and practice.. these will just make you better. This is an unpaid personal endorsement. I just like what I see!!!

[@paulrevelli]

Of course, now that the "Gaddiments" book is out we can keep ourselves busy using what he calls "the displacement approach" (either by one triplet or one sixteenth) with each of these exercises. But you already knew that, right? 😝

[@jhill.7216]

Rob Brown what’s going on my guy what do you think about interstellar love by Thundercat. The bass line and drums are sick give it a listen if you can .

[@coopercooper8406]

🔥😁🔥

[@camelcase9225]

Nice Rob. Hey man, you ever get away from your pad for a bit? I've been jumping on the kit all the time and just jamming. Haven't touched the pad in maybe 2 weeks. This alright or is pad always a main focus?

[@anichkov.zagrebin]

Hi, Rob! I started recording a lot of myself. When I got to the flams, I noticed that I had played them on tne beat instead of playing before the beat. After changing my approach to the flams, I got a lot of new insights. Do you think that the flam on the record should always be before the beat?

[@evandrofilho6173]

bro, there's no way to post videos with Portuguese subtitles? I love your style 👊

[@sebastiannielson1952]

Yay

[@resonanttotality8322]

I love flams too...

[@ryangroom2959]

Flam school bow dooown Flam school bow dooown Anyone?

[@rmiller9516]

Hello Rob

[@jeffgoetz7919]

yes, I’ll have the sticken flamwich

[@philipmcevoy7206]

Yo Rob you are thee flaminator . Hit me up with more smokin hot flams duder

[@markmeyers5922]

These are all just dancehall beats adding flams. But you are smooth guy

[@w6w6d]

Flamuel L. Jackson. Godlike.

[@jimbarcelona1078]

Hey Rob those sticks ,do they have a more secure hold on them, lately Ive had some problems keeping my sticks secure ,they seem to slip thought it was my age ,hell im 66 but not ready to lose my crip I use vader 5a nylon tip, Just wondering if those sticks are able to prevent slipping, after all these years I would like a stick that doesnt slip.i have used promark as well as vic firth so maybe it is me???any suggestions

[@carlbwoldman9504]

Vic firth double glazed sticks and promark active grip sticks will both solve your problem

[@denureang4460]

If you can show the notes on the screen below then it would be easy to learn for us

[@godislove8740]

Stick control to expression.

[@DEYZER29]

What drum pad is it your using?

[@charleswilliams2675]

Thanks for a much needed lesson for yours truly. I did Find the mens T Drummer For Hire and I ordered me one of these Bad Boys.

[@georgemickel6608]

"Now that's a tasty flamburger! "

[@johnrobinson8323]

Hi Rob! Is #2 swiss triplets?

[@jgdevoe]

Watched a lot of Rob's stuff, but this one threw me for a loop. What is the down beat of the stick movement you started with? No clue here. I'm guessing you added some kind of double tap on the first R of RRLR, correct? It'll be a year before I get that down, if I'm correct. Yup, big time beginner, but dedicated.

[@scooter12e]

It's just a right handed flam on the beat of each sixteenth note phrase. So you play a right handed flam on the first note of the rrlr phrase and a left handed flam on the first note of the llrl phrase.

[@jgdevoe]

@@scooter12e many thanks for your explanation.

[@HeinekenPete]

...Don't just play the exercises until they sound good, practice until it FEELS good. Now you're cookin'!