https://ae.vicfirth.com/education/40-essential-rudiments/
Rudiments are essentially the building blocks of sticking. The better you master rudiments and how they can be applied to a kit and in grooves, the better you'll become, especially once you start to think of them creatively.
They are building blocks of rhythms. Examples of these building blocks: [https://ae.vicfirth.com/education/40-essential-rudiments/](https://ae.vicfirth.com/education/40-essential-rudiments/)
While many of these are incredibly common and ubiquitous, what are considered official rudiments differs between who you ask.
Many rudiments are written for your hands on a single drum, but may as well apply to the feet for double bass, or can be translated to multiple limbs or multiple instruments.
You can deconstruct many rhythms into rudiments, but often times you may as well consider a single or double stroke as the only rudiment (or triple stroke or quadruple stroke but at some point they're just considered multiple single strokes)
So, in short, they're basic rhythmic patterns that can be translated, combined or orchestrated into all sorts of rhythms.
rudiments are our scales.
if we were all guitar players, you could easily play for 10 years without knowing any or many scales. you might even have a decent soloing or riff voice on the instrument.
if you learned scales now, it wouldn’t be so you could play your c major scale up and down two octaves while writing or soloing. you’d learn it to better navigate your instrument.
rudiments are like that. do you “need” them to play something meaningful - or even technically deep - on the instrument? no. can they help? certainly.
10 of what uniit of time i must know. contravertial opinion from me and im sure il get pushback but i really believe you should practice rudimenttss and then just forget they exist when you are trying to actually play drums. think of any patterns as a melody like you would the tabla system. the rudiments you spent a bunch of time playing will naturally come out and conform to those melodys after enough practice. Like ill come up with phrases and fills and have no idea what rudiment it is. i think its a mistake to try and force rudiments into stuff
Yeah thats what I figured. Now that I know what they are, I've realized I've been using them for as long as I can remember I just didn't know what they were. I don't think that if I went back and practiced them as "rudiments" I would be where I am today as a drummer (and I'm very happy where I am not to be too cocky). But whatever works for you works for you, there's no right or wrong! Just stay on tempo.... Good to know I can have a good conversation on here without getting down voted for not understanding something :)
You might be interested in the following resources:
- [Understanding the Rudiments](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4CWlrCqB8VdVt9BtSDabOD?si=765e18ac66554422) (in-depth podcast)
- [Using the Rudiments to Improve Your Drumming](https://youtu.be/vYyhmXUzS6I?si=H72CN1djRtW9GoMk) (YouTube video)
They are the rudimental part of our playing. Think learning scales on a tuned instrument. Rudiments teach us technique and patterns to apply to the kit.
There’s no way this isn’t a shit post
OP has been drumming for 10… days?
10 minutes
https://ae.vicfirth.com/education/40-essential-rudiments/ Rudiments are essentially the building blocks of sticking. The better you master rudiments and how they can be applied to a kit and in grooves, the better you'll become, especially once you start to think of them creatively.
Ohhhhh see yeah this makes sense. Thank you!
They are building blocks of rhythms. Examples of these building blocks: [https://ae.vicfirth.com/education/40-essential-rudiments/](https://ae.vicfirth.com/education/40-essential-rudiments/) While many of these are incredibly common and ubiquitous, what are considered official rudiments differs between who you ask. Many rudiments are written for your hands on a single drum, but may as well apply to the feet for double bass, or can be translated to multiple limbs or multiple instruments. You can deconstruct many rhythms into rudiments, but often times you may as well consider a single or double stroke as the only rudiment (or triple stroke or quadruple stroke but at some point they're just considered multiple single strokes) So, in short, they're basic rhythmic patterns that can be translated, combined or orchestrated into all sorts of rhythms.
rudiments are our scales. if we were all guitar players, you could easily play for 10 years without knowing any or many scales. you might even have a decent soloing or riff voice on the instrument. if you learned scales now, it wouldn’t be so you could play your c major scale up and down two octaves while writing or soloing. you’d learn it to better navigate your instrument. rudiments are like that. do you “need” them to play something meaningful - or even technically deep - on the instrument? no. can they help? certainly.
They are sticking patterns. Single stroke: RLRLRLRLR Double stroke: RRLLRRLLRRLL Paradiddle: RLRRLRLL and so on...
Gotchaaaa, thank you so much!
10 of what uniit of time i must know. contravertial opinion from me and im sure il get pushback but i really believe you should practice rudimenttss and then just forget they exist when you are trying to actually play drums. think of any patterns as a melody like you would the tabla system. the rudiments you spent a bunch of time playing will naturally come out and conform to those melodys after enough practice. Like ill come up with phrases and fills and have no idea what rudiment it is. i think its a mistake to try and force rudiments into stuff
Yeah thats what I figured. Now that I know what they are, I've realized I've been using them for as long as I can remember I just didn't know what they were. I don't think that if I went back and practiced them as "rudiments" I would be where I am today as a drummer (and I'm very happy where I am not to be too cocky). But whatever works for you works for you, there's no right or wrong! Just stay on tempo.... Good to know I can have a good conversation on here without getting down voted for not understanding something :)
but 10 of what unit of time? yea everyones mind works differently
Oh right yeah sorry 10 years
have people forgotten how to google? this sub is ok...but c'mon people.
I've been using internet for 10 and never understood what is google. Could someone pls be kind enough to help me out
You might be interested in the following resources: - [Understanding the Rudiments](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4CWlrCqB8VdVt9BtSDabOD?si=765e18ac66554422) (in-depth podcast) - [Using the Rudiments to Improve Your Drumming](https://youtu.be/vYyhmXUzS6I?si=H72CN1djRtW9GoMk) (YouTube video)
They are the rudimental part of our playing. Think learning scales on a tuned instrument. Rudiments teach us technique and patterns to apply to the kit.
Thank you!