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Essential Drum Rudiments

Develop the technical foundation every drummer needs with a complete guide to all 40 essential drum rudiments. Learn how to play singles, doubles, paradiddles, flams, drags, and ratamacues with precision, speed, and control and apply them musically in grooves, fills, and solos.

2.4 Hours

50 Lessons

Taught by

Dave Kropf

Essential Drum Rudiments

Course Content

All Topics

Single Strokes

Double Strokes

Paraddidle & Flams

Drags & Ratamacues

Topic1

Dave Kropf

Dave Kropf

Drum Lessons / Beginner Lessons / Essential Drum Rudiments

Introduction to Rudiments & Rebound Technique

00:00:0000:06:52

Introduction and Types of Rudiments

How to practice Rudiments?

Strokes Vs. Rebound

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Topic2

Dave Kropf

Dave Kropf

Drum Lessons / Beginner Lessons / Essential Drum Rudiments

Single Stroke Rudiments-Part 1

00:00:0000:08:33

Introduction to Roll Rudiments

Single Stroke Roll

Single Stroke four

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Topic3

Dave Kropf

Dave Kropf

Drum Lessons / Beginner Lessons / Essential Drum Rudiments

Single Stroke Rudiments-Part 2

00:00:0000:07:48

Single Stroke Seven Roll

Single stroke Multiple Bounced Roll

Triple Stroke Roll

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Topic4

Dave Kropf

Dave Kropf

Drum Lessons / Beginner Lessons / Essential Drum Rudiments

Double Stroke Rudiments-Part 1

00:00:0000:18:08

Double Stroke Roll-Introduction with Application

Five Stroke roll

Six Stroke Roll

Nine Stroke Roll

Ten Stroke Roll

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Topic5

Dave Kropf

Dave Kropf

Drum Lessons / Beginner Lessons / Essential Drum Rudiments

Double Stroke Rudiments-Part 2

00:00:0000:12:06

Eleven Stroke Role-Inroduction and Application

Thirteen Stroke Role

Fifteen Stroke Roll

Seventeen Stroke Roll

Conclusion Video

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Topic6

Dave Kropf

Dave Kropf

Drum Lessons / Beginner Lessons / Essential Drum Rudiments

Paradiddle Variations

00:00:0000:13:49

Diddle Rudiments-Introduction

Single Paradiddle

Double Paradiddle

Tripple Paradiddle

Single Paradiddle-Diddle

Conclusion video

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Topic7

Dave Kropf

Dave Kropf

Drum Lessons / Beginner Lessons / Essential Drum Rudiments

Foundations of Flam

00:00:0000:21:04

Flam Rudiments-Introduction

Flam

Flam Accent

Flam Tap

Flam Cue

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Topic8

Dave Kropf

Dave Kropf

Drum Lessons / Beginner Lessons / Essential Drum Rudiments

Intermediate Flam Rudiments

00:00:0000:16:47

Flam Paradiddle

Single Flammed Mill

Flam Paradiddle-Diddle

Pataflafla

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Topic9

Dave Kropf

Dave Kropf

Drum Lessons / Beginner Lessons / Essential Drum Rudiments

Advanced Flam Techniques

00:00:0000:11:36

Swiss Army Triplet

Inverted Flam Tap

Flam Drag

Conclusion to Flam Rudiments

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Topic10

Dave Kropf

Dave Kropf

Drum Lessons / Beginner Lessons / Essential Drum Rudiments

Introduction to Drags

00:00:0000:08:53

Drag Rudiments-Introduction

Drag

Single Drag tap

Double Drag Tap

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Topic11

Dave Kropf

Dave Kropf

Drum Lessons / Beginner Lessons / Essential Drum Rudiments

Drags with Diddles

00:00:0000:09:21

25th Rudiment

Single Drag Diddle

Drag Paradiddle-1

Drag paradiddle-2

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Topic12

Dave Kropf

Dave Kropf

Drum Lessons / Beginner Lessons / Essential Drum Rudiments

Ratamacue Variations

00:00:0000:07:35

Single Ratamacue

Double Ratamacue

Triple Ratamacue

Conclusion Video

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What you’ll learn

Build consistency, accuracy, and articulation for both practice and performance.

Learn flam rudiments from basic to advanced for added texture and dynamic impact.

Learn ratamacue variations to expand your rhythmic vocabulary.

By the end:

Confidently play and switch between chords and songs!