John Stanier: When In Doubt, Flam!

Flams are the spice in our percussive stew. A flam here, a flam there, will liven up even the dumbest of dumb, hard-rock, heavy-metal fills.

40 Essential Rudiments: Flam

DRUMmagazine.com music editor Wally Schnalle demonstrates how to play the flam.

In the last installment in his series on drum set rudiments, Hatebreed’s drummer looks at the ten-stroke roll, flam, flam tap, the four-stroke ruff.