The drag is the tenth and final rudiment in our series. If you’ve been practicing these rudiments and exercises correctly, at a wide variety of tempos, then your hands are now trained with all of the necessary motions required to play every other rudiment, and you can make an endless amount of smooth, flowing music around the drumset without confronting physical roadblocks caused by a lack of technique. For a quick review, the top ten rudiments are: single-stroke roll, doublestroke roll, triple-stroke roll, paradiddle, six-stroke roll, flam, flam accent,

January 2010 Issue