40 Essential Rudiments

40 ESSENTIAL SNARE DRUM RUDIMENTS

Welcome to Vic Firth's Drum Rudiment page! Included in this section of the website are all 40 of The Percussive Arts Society's Essential Snare Drum Rudiments, along with videos of each rudiment being performed by Dr. John Wooton, audio play-along files, exercises that apply the rudiment to "real world" musical phrases and practice suggestions from the Vic Firth Education Team. To get started, grab your sticks and a practice pad and select a rudiment from one of the rudimental families below!

Single Stroke Rudiments	Roll Rudiments	Flam Rudiments
Single Stroke Roll Single Stroke Four Single Stroke Seven	Multiple Bounce Roll Triple Stroke Roll Double Stroke Roll Five Stroke Roll Six Stroke Roll Seven Stroke Roll Nine Stroke Roll Thirteen Stroke Roll Fifteen Stroke Roll Seventeen Stroke Roll	Flam Flam Accent Flam Tap Flamacue Flam Paradiddle Single Flammed Mill Flam Paradiddle-diddle Pataflafla Swiss Army Triplet Inverted Flam Tap Flam Drag

Paradiddle Rudiments	Drag Rudiments
Single Paradiddle Double Paradiddle Triple Paradiddle Paradiddle-diddle	Ruff Single Drag Tap Double Drag Tap Lesson 25 Single Dragadiddle Drag Paradiddle #1 Drag Paradiddle #2 Single Ratamacue Double Ratamacue Triple Ratamacue

Important!
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