Drags & Ruffs – Drum Rudiments for Spirit Music Meet-Ups
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Rudimental Chart Collections containing Drags & Ruffs Drum Rudiments:
Note: Drags or Ruffs may contain Flams, like the llR L R rL Ratamaflam, but since the Drags or Ruffs are deeper level of complexity they are included here instead of on the Flams page. Drags or Ruffs may also contain Singles, Doubles, Triples, or Buzzes, but the reason they are not on those pages is because here they are “compressed/contracted” into a more “closed-texture” as grace-note strokes of an unspecified Note/Time-value that Setup a Principle-Stroke. For example, R L R L counted 1 e e + _ _ with 1/16-note Triplets is a Single-Stroke 4 on the Singles page, but “compressed/contracted” into rlrL where the L is the Principle-Stroke on count 1 and rlr has to “squeeze” in before the L, makes it a 4-Single-Stroke Ruff found on this page. The level of complexity and uniqueness of sound has caused others in history to classify them differently, but you really should view them as all related on a spectrum of open-to-closed texture.
Main Strokes = Strokes that have a Note/Time-value so they are not grace-note strokes but either the Principle-Stroke they Setup to create a Compound-Stroke or other Simple-Stroke(s) that are part of the Rudiment, e.g., the llR llR L R L Double Ratamacue has 5 Main Strokes.
Be careful: As you can see, some people refer to the Drags in this section the same as Ruffs in the last section!
Drags with 1 Main Stroke:
Video: Alternating Drags – Turn up your volume on this old video
Video – 22PWG: Extend Drags & Drag Taps out by revelation to deeply explore them as a little child
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Drags with 2 Main Strokes:
Video: Single Drag Taps – Turn your volume up on this old video
Video – 22PWG: Progressively explore Drag Taps deeply as a little child with curiosity
Video: Drag Tap Fills – Drag on the Snare and ‘Tap’ on a Crash with a Bass-Drum
Video – 22PWG: Extend Drags & Drag Taps out by revelation to deeply explore them as a little child
Video: Double Drag Tap – Turn up you volume on this old video
Video: Lesson 25 – Turn your volume up on this old video
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Drags with 3 Main Strokes:
Video – 22PWG: Leaps of childlike Joy of the Lord exploring Lesson 25 drags – Part 1, Part 2
Video – 22PWG: Discovering Permutations of Drag Triplets – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
More to come!
Drags with 4 Main Strokes:
Video – 22PWG: Childlike adventures in discovering and exploring Ratamacues – Part 1, Part 2
Video – 22PWG: Single Ratamaflams – Expanding Universe of this Rudiment relates it to others – Part 1, Part 2
Video: Flam Drag – Turn your volume up on this old video
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Drags with 5 or more Main Strokes:
Video: 22PWG – Deep childlike exploration of Drag Paradiddle 1 & 2 to fully learn – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Video: Single Dragadiddle – Turn your volume up on this old video
For Double & Triple Ratamaflams, see “Single Ratamaflams” above under “Drags with 4 Main Strokes“
More to come!
Ruffs:
Be careful: Some people call the Drags in the previous section “Ruffs.” Yikes!
Video – 22PWG: 3-Stroke Ruff is just a Single-Stroke 3 compressed, an Inverted-Double Filled-in – Part 1, Part 2
Video – 22PWG: 4-stroke Ruff is just a Single-Stroke 4 compressed – Expand from a 3-stroke Ruff – Part 1, Part 2
More to come!
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