Use the tags to browse exercises by difficulty or by concepts and rudiments, or take a nice long journey through the whole library!
Difficulty
Green Circle: Beneficial also to less-skilled performers.
Blue Square: Intermediate—some higher-level skills must be in place for the exercises to be truly beneficial.
Black Diamond: Advanced—higher-level skills must be established to reap the benefits.
HS-Recommended: Includes green circles and blue squares that would be both worthwhile and achievable for performers on a high school drumline.
Concepts & Rudiments
Broad Categories
Cloning (Also see Ensemble Warm-Ups)
Accent-Tap (Also see Ensemble Warm-Ups)
Doubles (Also see Ensemble Warm-Ups)
Flams (Also see Ensemble Warm-Ups)
Legatos (Also see Ensemble Warm-Ups)
Paradiddles (Also see Ensemble Warm-Ups)
Rolls (Also see Ensemble Warm-Ups)
Concepts
4-2-1 Grids
Half-Inch Grace Notes (Tacet-Height)
Metric Modulation
Rudiment Interp
Rudiment Juxtapositions
Tacet-Height Grace Notes (Half-Inch)
With Supplemental Exercises
With Written Variations
Rudiments
Accent-Tap
Backsticks
Cheese Fives (Flam Fives)
Cheese Inverts
Chocolate Mitchells (RlrrL|RlrrL|R)
Diddles
Doubles
Double Paradiddles (Paraparadiddles)
Eggbeaters
Fivelets
Flams
Flam Fives (Cheese Fives)
Flammed Mills
Flam-Taps
Fours
Hertas
Huckadiks (One-Handed Breakdown of Paradiddle-diddles)
Hugadigs
Hybrid Rudiments
Inverted Flam-Taps
Legatos
Multi-Beat
Paradiddles
Paradiddle-diddles
Paraparadiddles (Double Paradiddles)
Ratmacues
Rolls
Shopping Sprees
Singlestrokes
Swiss Army Triplets
Tap Fives
Threes
Tag Cloud
- Blue Square
- Black Diamond
- With Written Variations
- Rolls
- Diddles
- HS-Recommended
- Singlestrokes
- Green Circle
- Metric Modulation
- Doubles
- Flams
- Rudiment Juxtapositions
- Paradiddle-diddles
- Accent-Tap
- Paradiddles
- Cloning
- Swiss Army Triplets
- With Supplemental Exercises
- Hybrid Rudiments
- Flam-Taps
- Half-Inch Grace Notes
- Technique Triangle
- Chocolate Mitchells
- Fivelets
- Rudiment Interp
- Double Paradiddles
- Hertas
- Audition Études
- Tap-Fives
- Legatos
- Ratamacues
- Huckadiks
- Backsticks
- Inverted Flam Taps
- Hugadigs
- 4-2-1 Grids
- Multi-Beat
- Flam Drags
- Inverted Swiss Army Triplets
- Cheese Inverts
- Inverted Rolls
- Eggbeaters
- Sprees
- Fours
- Flam Fives
- Triplestrokes
- Threes
- Flammed Mills