Drag Rudiments - The Video

You can also download this video here :-

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The Single Drag Tap

Triple Ratamaque

Double Ratamaque

Single Ratamaque

The Drag

Over the Christmas Break I'd like you to work on one particular rudiment - The Drag. A Drag is, as it's name suggests, 'dragging' the stick across the drum to make 2 'buzzed' grace notes with one hand - this is then followed by an accented single stroke with the other hand.

Once you've got to grips with this, we can now go on to look at the 'Drag Rudiments' know as RATAMAQUES. Over the next few days I'll post up three different types of Ratamaque for you to work on.

Week 13 7th - 10th December

This week we looked at Back Beat Displacement - which is just a fancy way of saying that we're messing around with the back beat (the snare drum bits) within a groove.

The first groove we looked at was a 2 bar - quarter note groove displacing the back beat by an 8th note in the middle of the groove.

Here is the mp3 of Groove 1

We then developed this groove by adding bass drum beats to the first bar.

Here is the mp3 of Groove 2

We then looked at a slightly more complex version using displaced 16th notes.

Here are the mp3s of Groove 3 at two different speeds.

Groove 3 (Slower)  (Full Speed)

Week 12 30th November - 3rd December

Here is the notation of the fills we looked at this week.

Here are the the mp3s from the last lesson :-

Fill 1 (Slow)

Fill 1 (Medium)

Fill 1 (Fast)

Then around the Kit (Snare Drum, Tom 1, Tom 3) :-

Fill 2 (Slow)

Fill 2 (Medium)

Finally, using the whole kit per ostinato :-

Fill 3 (Slow)

Fill 3 (Medium)

Fill 3 (Fast)