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description: Two sticks, one sound — the fattest note on the drum.
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source: obsidian-knowledge
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# Flam
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> *Two sticks, one sound — the fattest note on the drum.*
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## The Rudiment
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The flam is the parent of an entire family. It is two strokes played so close together that the ear registers a single, thickened note: a quiet grace note landing an instant before the louder primary stroke. Done right, you don’t hear “ta-ta.” You hear one broad, weighted attack with a little extra body underneath it — the sound of a note that has been widened rather than doubled.
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The whole trick lives in the spacing. Too far apart and it flams into a distinct pair of notes; too close and it collapses into a single flat stroke with no depth. The flam is the width itself.
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## Sticking
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The standard PAS sticking alternates: **lR** then **rL**. The lowercase stick is the grace note, played low; the uppercase stick is the accented primary, played high. So a right-hand flam is a soft left grace into a strong right primary, and the left-hand flam mirrors it. Counted straight, one flam per beat, the hands trade lead each time.
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## How to Play
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Set the grace-note stick low — an inch or two off the head — and the primary stick high, and drop them so the low one speaks a hair before the high one. The height difference is what guarantees the timing and the dynamic split; if both sticks start at the same height you get a chaotic double instead of a flam. Keep the grace note genuinely soft. The primary carries the accent and the pitch; the grace just adds shoulder to it.
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## In Practice
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Flams are everywhere a drummer wants a note to sound bigger without playing louder — the fat backbeat, the emphatic downbeat of a fill, the weighted accents of a marching line. Orchestral snare writing leans on them constantly, and they are the seed from which the flam accent, the flam tap, and the Swiss army triplet all grow.
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## Related
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- [Flam Tap](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/flam-tap)
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- [Flam Accent](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/flam-accent)
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- [Swiss Army Triplet](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/swiss-army-triplet)
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- [Drum Rudiments](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments)
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