Subscribe to my channel or I'll steal your cymbals: bit.ly/2AyH1Fb Download FREE program 30 Days To Better Single Strokes: bit.ly/2OpuyKx Applying the drum rudiments to the drum set can be a daunting task. But if you will take the time to really learn how to use your drum rudiments, the payoff will be extraordinary. In this lesson, I take you through 7 ways to use flams on the drum set. Leave a comment below and let me know your favorite way to use drum flams!
i think the reason i've learnt so much from you is not because of your skill or dialogue; it's how human you are. You're real. You're not all "business-y". You give off an empathetic vibe and express yourself in a way i can understand. I go hard with that
"How you use flams the most"? Everywhere, in every way! Flams are probably my favorite type of accent, and I play them across toms, snare, and sometimes even the bass drum (flamming with a double pedal); an interesting thing I've discovered is when flamming between two toms, the tom that's hit second comes through _much_ more than the first one, even if the velocity was the same, so I exploit that too.
#6, #7 Those do sound really cool! I always do synced kick-snare hits, but it never occurred to me to flam them. I'll take these to the kit next time I'm there!
Thank you Stephen for all of your videos, I am a beginner drummer in a band and your videos have helped me so much, I use one video each time I practice, so again thank you for helping me so much, keep making the videos!
This morning while playing at church .. flam tap tap sticking as 16th notes between hi and floor tom but resolve the bar with a single stroke and paradiddle ending with a single snare note on count 4. kick on 1 and 3 ;) sounds awesome.
DUDE I watched this lesson and I’ve completely leveled up, and I’m only on #3!!! I’m kind of frustrated that I’ve been making things so complicated all this time, but you just took me from kaio Ken to Super Saiyan! Thank you so much!!!
I use flams during my practicing on Jazz songs especially during fast fills, always enjoy your videos.By the way, reading has improved since I talked to you last. As always thanks Stephen!
I'm 49 years old, been playing almost my whole life but am mostly self taught. I always played flams beginning with my right hand as the grace note. For the last year I've been working on rudiments. I still have a hard time getting my left hand grace note flams clean.
Your Snare wants yo sing but It sounds kinda choked with that gel, would yo he willing to upload a video without the gel? Your vida are amazing as always btw, been learning AND practicing a lot of stuff I hadn't practiced in a looooong Time. Thank you for thisn
Hey Stephen Im a drummer at hope Church and I was wanting to ask you something. When i use the kick and the hi hat pedal my legs want to move both the same time but I'm trying to get them to do different things how would you practice it? (Same thing with my legs and arms)
Hi, Stephen! 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?
Funny tip I heard about flams: 1. If your flams don’t sound right, make sure the grace note is low (low in volume, but in this case it’s the same as “starts at a low height above the drum”) 2. If the flams still don’t sound right, go back to Step 1.
To me this lessons are not about learning new stuff. They are about "if you know how to do it why don't you use it?"I've studied similar excercises but I never remember them while playing. Definetly will be implementing them on my classes
Step#1 the Dave Grohl-flam sounds exactly like Peter Criss intro to Strutter ;) So that begs the question: is Dave Grohls father Peter Criss? It must be, you can hear it in the flam ;)
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Applying the drum rudiments to the drum set can be a daunting task. But if you will take the time to really learn how to use your drum rudiments, the payoff will be extraordinary. In this lesson, I take you through 7 ways to use flams on the drum set.
Leave a comment below and let me know your favorite way to use drum flams!
Good one, thanks! Wanted to check the Single Strokes program but when I click the download link in the page I get a 404.
i think the reason i've learnt so much from you is not because of your skill or dialogue; it's how human you are. You're real. You're not all "business-y". You give off an empathetic vibe and express yourself in a way i can understand. I go hard with that
Steven you are a huge inspiration to all of us! Keep the hard work. We appreciate it!
Thanks so much my friend
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That kit sounds amazing!
"How you use flams the most"? Everywhere, in every way! Flams are probably my favorite type of accent, and I play them across toms, snare, and sometimes even the bass drum (flamming with a double pedal); an interesting thing I've discovered is when flamming between two toms, the tom that's hit second comes through _much_ more than the first one, even if the velocity was the same, so I exploit that too.
#6, #7 Those do sound really cool! I always do synced kick-snare hits, but it never occurred to me to flam them. I'll take these to the kit next time I'm there!
Thank you Stephen for all of your videos, I am a beginner drummer in a band and your videos have helped me so much, I use one video each time I practice, so again thank you for helping me so much, keep making the videos!
Thank you Sir you are my favorite you truly make it approachable to learn drumming🤘🏻
Great lessons for this beginner. Small steps that aren’t frustrating...bless your kind soul. 🤘🙂😄
Thank you so much for these tips!
This morning while playing at church .. flam tap tap sticking as 16th notes between hi and floor tom but resolve the bar with a single stroke and paradiddle ending with a single snare note on count 4. kick on 1 and 3 ;) sounds awesome.
Mark Giuliana used to use a flam between the snare and floor tom. Really liked that. I've heard him do it on several tracks on various albums.
I always like to play flams to get a pocket feel in my drumming. I also like to split them between the snare and hi-hat on the 2th or 4th beat.
Thanks for the vid Stephen! Very helpful! Also your right lead to left lead flams are so fluid and clean!!
The song i thought of when you were “flamming” on the snare and toms was Nirvana’s “In Bloom”, Dave Grohl loves using flams in his drumming
Oh for sure
Stephen Taylor Oh wait, it wasnt Dave Grohl who did the drums for In Bloom
I thought I heard lithium not in bloom
Dylan yeah it could be too, i just heard in bloom
Shaggy Rodgers yyyyeeeep
Very informative and practical lesson, thank you Stephen.
FLAMboyant!
Someone had to. Awesome as always Stephen. Currently my favourite rudiment! I like to use a flam to beef up a backbeat sometimes
Awesome and inspiring.... mixing tom/snare, snare/tom, snare/cymbal.... same technique but completely different sound
DUDE I watched this lesson and I’ve
completely leveled up, and I’m only on #3!!!
I’m kind of frustrated that I’ve been making things so complicated all this time, but you just took me from kaio Ken to Super Saiyan! Thank you so much!!!
Can I give a shout-out to you in a video!?
Excellent lesson, Stephen! Can't wait to try this out on the ol' practice pad.
Those Swiss Triplets were bangin!
I use flams during my practicing on Jazz songs especially during fast fills, always enjoy your videos.By the way, reading has improved since I talked to you last. As always thanks Stephen!
ughhhh those brilliant finish fast crashes/sweet crashes are so nice
Yeah those are k sweet brilliant finish prototypes. Really digging them
i've used flams before i even knew what flams were, i like using it to "jump into" a beat by doing a flam before i start drumming
I have been having trouble with this so thank you for this video : )
You bet!
@@StephenTaylorDrums thanks for reply : )
Great flam-learning song: Know Your Enemy - Green Day
I like to play swiss triplets as straight sixteenth notes... you get sweet sounding accent pattern against the sixteenth note pulse.
Yea, that 3 over 4 feel is great
That was really great!! Keep up the noble work sir.
Glad you dug it!
Hey I really like that T-shirt you’re wearing; where can I get one?
#5 Dammit! I practiced it long time ago and completely forgot about it. Alright, time to sit down and work it out tomorrow!
At the 7:20 kinda sounds like what Jim Mastea was doing in the Boston song Foreplay.
The most famous drum fill ever recorded was a good example of flam use: In the air tonight, by Phil Collins.
What if I told you... your snare sounds killer! Great vid Stephen!
Great lesson.
My favorite place to play a flam is the Pat in a Pat-Boone-Debbie-Boone...don't know why...
I'm 49 years old, been playing almost my whole life but am mostly self taught. I always played flams beginning with my right hand as the grace note. For the last year I've been working on rudiments. I still have a hard time getting my left hand grace note flams clean.
Yea, we always have a strong hand when it comes to flams
We need a 30days to better flams!
Hmmmm
Early as always. Thank you Steph
You bet!
Your Snare wants yo sing but It sounds kinda choked with that gel, would yo he willing to upload a video without the gel? Your vida are amazing as always btw, been learning AND practicing a lot of stuff I hadn't practiced in a looooong Time. Thank you for thisn
Hey Stephen Im a drummer at hope Church and I was wanting to ask you something. When i use the kick and the hi hat pedal my legs want to move both the same time but I'm trying to get them to do different things how would you practice it? (Same thing with my legs and arms)
Cool videos. I now realize I play a lot more flams than I realized
Hi, Stephen! 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?
When you sped up #5, I'm pretty sure that's exactly what Smelly plays on NOFX's The Decline during the *really* fast bit
Funny tip I heard about flams:
1. If your flams don’t sound right, make sure the grace note is low (low in volume, but in this case it’s the same as “starts at a low height above the drum”)
2. If the flams still don’t sound right, go back to Step 1.
Ha!
Hey Stephen can you please do a video on Dave Grohl snare sound on the first foo fighters album!?!?
To me this lessons are not about learning new stuff. They are about "if you know how to do it why don't you use it?"I've studied similar excercises but I never remember them while playing. Definetly will be implementing them on my classes
hi, do you knowhow to properly write dowm a flam on guitar pro ?
C’mon Stephen, I know you like Bob Ross with that “happy little accidents” reference.
I plead the 5th.
Who doesn't like Bob Ross
I put this at 0.25 speed to confirm it was triplets with flams which is very handy! And, stephen sounds drunk which is hilarious :) lol
Very cool! I am way behind on rudiments. Self taught. Inspiring video. Thanks. Come check me out sometime.
Happy little accidents... Bob Ross is smiling 😊
The wood plank wall behind you is so amazing that I find it distracting.
Flim, flam, say sh^t go&&am!
Trying to learn Nirvana songs and it's like flam city thanks Dave lmao
Bro I Don't know how to tune my drum well you teach me
What’s good bruh 😎
What up!
Stephen Taylor 👍😎
Can I get a flam-a-diddle? lol
we really need some hand to feet coordination excercises. Splits are ok, we just need some more!
I'll see what I can do
Step#1 the Dave Grohl-flam sounds exactly like Peter Criss intro to Strutter ;) So that begs the question: is Dave Grohls father Peter Criss? It must be, you can hear it in the flam ;)
Coming from a marching perspective. Be as relaxed as possible and do not lift that grace note. Maintain tap height low and accent height highs
I use them so much I can't point out specifically when
I rewatched the vid cause you changed the title😂🔥💀
Ha!
Holy crap. Since 1983, I have been playing flams wrong!! I blame my band teacher. He was NOT a drummer! Ha ha!
I've had my drum kit 2 days and I CANNOT figure out what he's doing with his hands on that 2nd flam
I thought your favorite would have been the flam Boone Debbie Boone 😂
Everyone talking about the best flam in the comments needs to go back and listen to "Carry on Wayward Son" intro :D
duh duh, duh duh FLAM
18th
What up
Stephen Taylor I’m auditioning for my schools jazz band it’s like a bossa nova type feel