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A rudiment is one of a set of basic patterns used in rudimental drumming. These patterns form the basic building blocks or "vocabulary" of drumming, and can be combined in a more-or-less infinite variety of ways to create drumming music.

There have been many attempts to formalise a standard list of snare drum rudiments. The National Association of Rudimental Drummers (NARD), an organization established to promote rudimental drumming, put forward a list of 13 "essential" rudiments, and later a second set of thirteen to form the original 26. Finally, the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) reorganized the first 26 and added another 14 to form the current "40 international drum rudiments".

Contents 1 The 40 P.A.S. International Drum Rudiments 1.1 Single Stroke Roll Rudiments 1.2 Multiple Bounce Roll Rudiments 1.3 Double Stroke Rudiments 1.4 Diddle Rudiments 1.5 Flam Rudiments 1.6 Drag Rudiments 2 Historical Organization 2.1 The Thirteen "Essential" Rudiments 2.2 The Second Thirteen Rudiments 2.3 The Last Fourteen Rudiments 3 Books 4 Notable Contributors 5 Hybrid Rudiments 6 External links

The 40 P.A.S. International Drum Rudiments

Single Stroke Roll Rudiments

1.	Single Stroke Roll
2.	Single Stroke Four
3.	Single Stroke Seven

Multiple Bounce Roll Rudiments

4.	Multiple Bounce Roll
5.	Triple Stroke Roll

Double Stroke Rudiments

6.	Double Stroke Open Roll
7.	Five Stroke Roll
8.	Six Stroke Roll
9.	Seven Stroke Roll
10.	Nine Stroke Roll
11.	Ten Stroke Roll
12.	Eleven Stroke Roll
13.	Thirteen Stroke Roll
14.	Fifteen Stroke Roll
15.	Seventeen Stroke Roll

Diddle Rudiments

16.	Single Paradiddle
17.	Double Paradiddle
18.	Triple Paradiddle
19.	Paradiddle-Diddle

Flam Rudiments

20.	Flam
21.	Flam Accent
22.	Flam Tap
23.	Flamacue
24.	Flam Paradiddle
25.	Single Flammed Mill
26.	Flam Paradiddle-Diddle
27.	PataFlaFla
28.	Swiss Army Triplet
29.	Inverted Flam Tap
30.	Flam Drag

Drag Rudiments

31.	Drag
32.	Single Drag Tap
33.	Double Drag Tap
34.	Lesson 25
35.	Single Dragadiggle
36.	Drag Paradiddle #1
37.	Drag Paradiddle #2
38.	Single Ratamacue
39.	Double Ratamacue
40.	Triple Ratamacue

Historical Organization

The Thirteen "Essential" Rudiments

1. The Long Roll
2. The Five Stroke Roll
3. The Seven Stroke Roll
4. The Flam
5. The Flam Accent
6. The Flam Paradiddle
7. The Flamacue
8. The Ruff
9. The Single Drag
10. The Double Drag
11. The Double Paradiddle
12. The Single Ratamacue
13. The Triple Ratamacue

The Second Thirteen Rudiments

14. The Single Stroke Roll
15. The Nine Stroke Roll
16. The Ten Stroke Roll
17. The Eleven Stroke Roll
18. The Thirteen Stroke Roll
19. The Fifteen Stroke Roll
20. The Flam Tap
21. The Single Paradiddle
22. The Drag Paradiddle #1
23. The Drag Paradiddle #2
24. The Flam Paradiddle-diddle
25. The Lesson 25
26. The Double Ratamacue

The Last Fourteen Rudiments

More recently, the Percussive Arts Society added 14 more rudiments to extended the list to the current "40 International Drum Rudiments". Note that the ordering was completely changed during this last re-organization, so these numbers won't match those above.

27. The Single Stroke Four
28. The Single Stroke Seven
29. The Multiple Bounce Roll
30. The Triple Stroke Roll
31. The Six Stroke Roll
32. The Seventeen Stroke Roll
33. The Triple Paradiddle
34. The Single Paradiddle-Diddle
35. The Single Flammed Mill
36. The Pataflafla
37. The Swiss Army Triplet
38. The Inverted Flam Tap
39. The Flam Drag
40. The Single Dragadiddle

Books

(1812) "A New, Useful, and Complete System of Drum Beating" by Charles Ashworth
(1815) "The Art of Beating the Drum" by Samuel Potter
(1861) "The Drummers' and Fifers' Guide" by Bruce Emmett
(1869) "Strube's Drum and Fife Instructor" by Gardiner A. Strube
(1886) "The Trumpet and Drum" by John Philip Sousa
(1935) "Stick Control" by George Lawrence Stone
(1945) "The All-American Drummer" by Charley Wilcoxin
(1959) "14 Modern Contest Solos For Snare Drum" by John S. Pratt
(1979) "The Technique and Mechanics of Rudimental Snare Drumming" by Ken Mazur
(1992) "The Drummer's Rudimental Reference Book" by John Wooten
(2004) "The Beat of a Different Drummer" by Dominick Cuccia

Notable Contributors

Charley Wilcoxon: instructor, author, teacher
J. Burns Moore: instructor, author, teacher
George Lawrence Stone: instructor, author, teacher
Earl Sturtze: instructor, author, teacher
Les Parks: instructor & arranger, Sons of Liberty Fife & Drum Corps, Hawthorne Cabaleros, Garfield Cadets
John S. Pratt: instructor, author, teacher
Fred Sanford: instructor & arranger, Santa Clara Vanguard Drum & Bugle Corps
Ralph Hardimon: instructor & arranger, Santa Clara Vanguard Drum & Bugle Corps
Tom Float: instructor & arranger, Blue Devils Drum & Bugle Corps
Marty Hurley: instructor & arranger, Phantom Regiment Drum & Bugle Corps
Scott Johnson: instructor & arranger, Blue Devils Drum & Bugle Corps
James Campbell: instructor & arranger, Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps
Bret Kuhn: instructor & arranger, Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps
Dennis DeLucia: instructor & arranger, Bridgemen Drum & Bugle Corps
Thom Hannum: instructor & arranger, Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps
Charley Poole, Jr. instructor & arranger, 27th Lancers Drum & Bugle Corps

Hybrid Rudiments

Over the years, many other rudimental patterns have been informally identified and given creative names, although most of these are based upon the original 40. They are commonly known as "hybrids".

External links

• Vic Firth
• The Percussive Arts Society International Drum Rudiments
• Hybrid Rudiments Collection on JosiahMicheletti.com
• RudimentalDrumming.com
• Dreaded Drummer Productions