The Pad – Exercise 6: Flam Chops
This week, we're tackling the flam. Here are some fun flam exercises to build your flam chops.
DownloadBe careful to not accent the flams that aren’t accented. Many times, we feel the need to hit a flam harder than its surrounding strokes … because it just seems to feel right. However, work on playing the flams the same volume as the other non-accented strokes. Build that stick control!
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Author
Publisher of OnlineDrummer.com, Alfred Publishing author, Ddrum artist, and veteran Drum! Magazine contributor, Nate is a graduate of John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio and holds a Master of Arts in Education from the University of Findlay.
