Flam Accent Development By Michael Beauclerc

“Flam Accent Development” is a two-height exercise to help drummers develop the Flam Accent rudiment. In the first two measures the performers are playing what a single hand plays when the rudiment is broken down. The in measure 3 the two hands play at the same time creating the flam accent rudiment. Next the accent is moved to different partials for snares and tenors to create a split rhythm sequence. The exercise finishes with the “flam taps” rudiment for the snare and tenors. A good tip is to experiment setting the metronome at double the tempo marking and use it as the dotted eighth note. Each exercise comes with a PDF download and YouTube link for play-a-long videos for snare and tenor.