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kennethreitz ce93f429a2 Add Knowledge: the vault's reference shelf, crosslinked across the site
Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes,
67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer.

- scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault:
  slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site
  links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables
  rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion
  list plus a privacy guard.
- tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and
  aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note
  (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages
  list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other
  pages get a Related Knowledge block.
- Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never
  displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid
  diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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description: The alphabet of the snare — forty patterns from which every fill is spelled.
source: obsidian-knowledge
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# Drum Rudiments
> *The alphabet of the snare — forty patterns from which every fill is spelled.*
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The rudiments are the fundamental sticking patterns of the snare drum — the vocabulary a drummer drills until the hands know them without thought, then recombines into everything else. The modern standard is the **forty International Drum Rudiments** codified by the Percussive Arts Society, built out from the older twenty-six of the American tradition. They divide into four families: **rolls** (sustained sound through singles, buzzes, or doubles), **diddles** (the paradiddle group, alternating singles and doubles), **flams** (a grace note struck just before the beat), and **drags** (two grace notes before the beat).
The forty, sorted into their four families, with the roll family's own three branches:
```mermaid
flowchart TD
R["The 40 rudiments"]
R --> Ro["Rolls — sustained sound"]
R --> Di["Diddles — the paradiddle group"]
R --> Fl["Flams — one grace note"]
R --> Dr["Drags — two grace notes"]
Ro --> S["Single stroke"]
Ro --> Mb["Multiple bounce"]
Ro --> Ds["Double stroke open"]
```
---
## Roll Rudiments
*Single stroke:* [Single Stroke Roll](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/single-stroke-roll) · [Single Stroke Four](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/single-stroke-four) · [Single Stroke Seven](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/single-stroke-seven)
*Multiple bounce:* [Multiple Bounce Roll](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/multiple-bounce-roll) · [Triple Stroke Roll](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/triple-stroke-roll)
*Double stroke open:* [Double Stroke Open Roll](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/double-stroke-open-roll) · [Five Stroke Roll](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/five-stroke-roll) · [Six Stroke Roll](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/six-stroke-roll) · [Seven Stroke Roll](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/seven-stroke-roll) · [Nine Stroke Roll](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/nine-stroke-roll) · [Ten Stroke Roll](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/ten-stroke-roll) · [Eleven Stroke Roll](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/eleven-stroke-roll) · [Thirteen Stroke Roll](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/thirteen-stroke-roll) · [Fifteen Stroke Roll](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/fifteen-stroke-roll) · [Seventeen Stroke Roll](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/seventeen-stroke-roll)
## Diddle Rudiments
[Single Paradiddle](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/single-paradiddle) · [Double Paradiddle](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/double-paradiddle) · [Triple Paradiddle](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/triple-paradiddle) · [Single Paradiddle-Diddle](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/single-paradiddle-diddle)
## Flam Rudiments
[Flam](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/flam) · [Flam Accent](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/flam-accent) · [Flam Tap](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/flam-tap) · [Flamacue](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/flamacue) · [Flam Paradiddle](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/flam-paradiddle) · [Single Flammed Mill](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/single-flammed-mill) · [Flam Paradiddle-Diddle](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/flam-paradiddle-diddle) · [Pataflafla](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/pataflafla) · [Swiss Army Triplet](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/swiss-army-triplet) · [Inverted Flam Tap](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/inverted-flam-tap) · [Flam Drag](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/flam-drag)
## Drag Rudiments
[Drag](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/drag) · [Single Drag Tap](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/single-drag-tap) · [Double Drag Tap](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/double-drag-tap) · [Lesson 25](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/lesson-25) · [Single Dragadiddle](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/single-dragadiddle) · [Drag Paradiddle No. 1](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/drag-paradiddle-no-1) · [Drag Paradiddle No. 2](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/drag-paradiddle-no-2) · [Single Ratamacue](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/single-ratamacue) · [Double Ratamacue](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/double-ratamacue) · [Triple Ratamacue](/knowledge/music/drum-rudiments/triple-ratamacue)
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## Related
- [Music Hub](/knowledge/music)
- Music Background — twenty-plus years at the kit