Welcome to week twenty-one of our technique/theory/pad lessons. In this lesson we’ll finish up our introduction to the Percussive Arts Society’s 40 standard rudiments with the Single, Double, and Triple Ratamacues. We’ll talk about different ways of interpreting the drag portion of the Ratamacues, and how that can apply to all of the Drag rudiments. We’ll learn a couple simple but physically demanding exercises to prepare us for our introduction to Ghost Notes on Friday. And we’ll learn this really funky Flam exercise that I’ve loved for decades.

Ratamacue Interpretation:
pennylarson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Ratamacue-Interpretation.pdf

Ghost Note Primer:
pennylarson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Ghost-Note-Primer.pdf

Flam Workout:
pennylarson.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Flam-Workout.pdf

Here’s a sheet with the 40 standard Percussive Arts Society Rudiments:
www.pas.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/pas-drum-rudiments-2018dcccc96de1726e19ba7fff00008669d1.pdf

A few years ago I made a series focused just on the rudiments called “A Rudiment a Day.” Here are links to the rudiments we worked on today for review:

Single Ratamacue:

Double Ratamacue:

Triple Ratamacue:

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