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Hi, I'm Shaun Schaefer on behalf of Expert Village and today we are going to be learning
how to play a few basic flam rudiments. Now that we have talked about accents and taps
and we know what a flam is let's discuss how to play a grace note. Now with a tap I was
playing the taps with my left hand. You can see when I'm playing the tap I am actually
lifting my hand, lifting the stick. To play a soft note. That is a tap. Now a grace note
on the other hand if you see I'm just dragging, I'm not lifting up to play the grace note.
A grace note is just a drop to the drum right. That would be a grace note. It is actually
pretty difficult to play by it self but once you get into the habit of playing a flam you
don't even think about playing the grace note and then playing the accent. You are playing
a flam. So let's go ahead and take a look at adding the accent and the grace note together
to complete our flam in our next step.