{"id":22667,"date":"2020-04-07T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=22667"},"modified":"2022-08-23T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:20:16","slug":"the-rudiment-exercise-you-didnt-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/the-rudiment-exercise-you-didnt-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rudiment Exercise You Didn&#8217;t Expect (Collapsing Double Strokes)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mRoN_O7HjC0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This exercise was inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/why-paradiddles-are-so-important\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dorothea Taylor<\/a> and involves transitioning between rudiments in a way you might not expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s call it &#8216;squishing doubles into hand-to-hand flams&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start by playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/double-stroke-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">double strokes<\/a>. Then, reduce (or &#8216;squish&#8217;) the space between the notes until they turn into hand-to-hand <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/flam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flams <\/a>(which is a right hand flam, followed by a left hand flam, and repeat). It&#8217;s amazing how easy this is once you get it. You&#8217;ll notice that a hand-to-hand flam can be broken down into doubles with each hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also start with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/triple-stroke-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">triple stroke roll<\/a> (RRRLLL) and transition into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/flam-tap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">flam taps<\/a> (lRR rLL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rudiments are the letters of the words that make up the drumming alphabet. Whether you call it &#8216;squishing&#8217; or &#8216;collapsing&#8217; (thanks, Claus Hessler), taking this approach to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/11-ways-to-make-rudiments-fun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">practicing rudiments<\/a> can help you better understand their building blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8216;squished doubles&#8217; exercise involves transitioning between rudiments in a way you might not expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4034],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rudiment-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22667"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32052,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22667\/revisions\/32052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}