FLAM TAP

The flam tap consists of a flam, followed by a tap on the same hand that played the primary stroke of the flam. Often played alternating from hand to hand, the flam tap is often used to convey a steady sixteenth note rhtyhm, with the flams adding a slight emphasis on the eighth note beats. This rudiment can be broken down as three taps on each hand overlapping to create the flam tap. Special care should be put into making sure that the flams are maintaining a consistant spacing.

The flam tap is where two strokes are played on one hand whilst being preceeded by a grace note, known as the flam. The rudiment then switches hand and is repeated.  This can also be seen as double strokes where the first of each double has a flam attached to it.  Intrduced into the Royal Marines syllabus just before the midway point of training.  It can be found in many studies, solos, and statics.  The object tempo would be crotchet = 132.  This is built up gradually so that not to ruin early technique.

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It has to be emphasized that traditional Swiss Drum culture does not contain Flam Tap at all. In Switzerland, only the Inverted Flam tap is taught as a rudiment. However, in recent years with all the networking to other drum cultures, the Flam Tap has been composed in Swiss compositions. It then mostly occurs in a sixteenth-notes rhythm.

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