Drum Rudiments #28 - Swiss Army Triplet - DrumRudiments.com

[SteveMcQueen24]

nice basebell bats

[StanandLogan]

@cciiiaaooo

This book says that is flam accent.

[VichoPL]

those drumsticks freak me out!

[MattRenyDrums]

My favorite rudiment =D

[ccaaaiiooo]

DAM! I aways thought that swiss army triplet was FLAM L R

[Fenixx117]

@ccaaaiiooo i guess it could be if you started on the right.

[oldschoolluke]

@ccaaaiiooo it is. --> rLLR or lRRL

[figorocks]

lololol im left handed and i do lefty ones so fast but doing them right like ths is too hard

[joethedrummer16]

Haha his sticks look like the tips got amputated and now they just have nubs!

[CDB1997]

Damn. That sounds live.

[NauticaSplit]

FLAM RL FLAM RL FLAM RL etc.....

[acerious15]

One of Portnoy's favorite rudiment.

[ZackPomerleau]

I'm just curious, is lRLR rLRL (the little letter denotes the flam) a type of Swiss Army Triplet? It alternates. I always thought that was the Swiss Army Triplet.

[Buttersnackattack]

@ZackPomerleau That's the sticking of flam accents.

[ExplosiveNutSack]

ATTENTION DRUMMERS...MY ANUS IS LEAKING STALE PORRIDGE ONTO MIKE PORTNOYS FACE

[VirusMan254]

@ExplosiveNutSack LOL! What?

[allmetaliswelcome]

OOOOH now i get it! i was playing the wrong handed flams!

[jpritch2]

this is a whole lot easier if you DO NOT lift your left stick... keep it down.

This should also be learned left handed as well.

[ChelseaFC6528]

im new to this kind of thing. is that a flam and two triplet notes after?

[drummer265]

@ChelseaFC6528 Yup that's exactly what it is.

[Milkman23]

whats wrong with showing these on a snare? not that i mind

[PokeyNTess]

@Milkman23 it's harder for the mike to pick up and still sound well and it's easier to hear the exact individual notes

[popcorn9694]

daaang. sounds like roll after a while XD

[AirmetalDrummer]

I remember having to nail this rudiment for a solo I was doing (Hurricane). I sucked so bad at this rudiment, I hated it.

Then I started upping the tempo a beat here and a beat there. Now I love this rudiment.

If you can keep it clean and do some random head jerks, it looks SWEET!:-D

[lolpwn6969]

@AirmetalDrummer thats the same solo i had to learn swiss triplets for

[AirmetalDrummer]

@lolpwn6969 It's definitely a fun one to play once you get it down.

[Philly2Brooklyn]

My fave rudiment haha

[TheMusikzwerg]

I've heard and seen people playing Swiss Army Triplets more accurate. To be precise, the flam doesn't come out clearly every time. You can see how it works, but it's definately not perfect. Sorry.

[groalerable]

can i use this in the place of a flam accent?

(will the judges be able to tell from behind a curtain?)

[benjewboynett]

i kinda wanna buy teor sticks like that off steveweiss just to see if they are good...

[TheSeventeenthDruid]

Definitely sounds like an army beat.

[daniLOLWUT]

i was using sarcasm.

[killerproctologist]

sounds like a train coming to a stop in the 1800's

[Themandid]

Damn, That was clean.

[DrummerBoyJustin]

true but he is using more rist.

[daniLOLWUT]

i love how this dood uses his arms. >.>

[CJxSPRAYER]

lol i just noticed that

[ASKAJAIMES]

that's what she said

[telltalemse]

hahah thats what she said!!!

[sportsman192]

for all ppl saying its a flam accent, ur wrong. a flam accent is alternating (flam left right flam right left) while swiss armies are straight up consistant(flam right left flam right left)

[UberStrawberry]

isnt that a flam accent youre talking about

[turtledrum13]

thats a different rudiment... flam accents

[brownsound545]

those are flam accents lol

[drumz86]

nope

[brownsound545]

i was responding to someone elses comment lol

[xevoleyex]

dynamokiev, you are doin a completely different rudiment called a flam accent.

[huskerfam]

if u can play the rudiments u can play anything

[nimajnebenneb]

pro-tip coordination

[acidbath32]

wow when you go fast i can barely hear the flams, insane

[partyboy3172008]

this hands down is one of the easiest rudiments to get fast i was able to play them as fast as this guy if not faster in only 3 or 4 days of only playing them maby 5 or 10 min a day

[RCMS74]

i know right! its my favorite rudiment and i can play them like crazy fast too. i even made my own hybrid rudiment with it its like a swiss army triplet with 2 flam taps with an accent on the right hand and some rim shots here and there. im gonna eventually make a video about it.

[Dzifas]

Could someone pls leave me a message about which of these rudiments would be best to learn for a beginer drummer and which one's are acutaly mostly used in drumming thank you.

[HEYBUDD]

Paradiddle. Start with RLRR LRLL with no accent.

Then accent the first of each group.

Then learn (the paradiddle)

LRRL RLLR

RRLR LLRL

LRLL RLRR

RLLR LRRL

Accent every different combanation you can think of in every example given.....there are many permutations of the rudements to practice....the basic rudiment is just the "jumping off" point.

But....learn them all. If you learn them...you will use them. Their all important.

Good luck!

[linnintek]

I feel the best ones to start with are the ones you like the most, this way its easier to keep a good level of determination, start off slow, try to keep the muscles in your arms relaxed, its the only way to maintain constant speed, so when you feel that tension in your arms just remember to "let go" - youl get there eventually - evryone has rudiments they struggle with, dont forget about dynamics - being able to play very light as well as hard. good luck!

[RCMS74]

if you can play paraddidles and flams really clean and nice then you can play a bunch of stuff. just start off at a comfortable pace then progressivly get fast but still try and control the sticking and dynamics. also work on a nice even buzz and double stroke roll. once its even try creshendoing. (not spelled right sorry, start soft and get louder) that should be great for you to start off with. !!!

[elkaboom]

Essentially the hands are doing the same thing, only off set by 1 beat of the triplet. Right hand plays: 1 & _. Left hand plays: 1_a. The flam occurs on the 1, where the R and L patterns meets. Try it slowly and revoice each hand (to your leg or something) so you can hear it more clearly. Another way to think of it is a triplet played with a double R stroke, followed by a single L: RRL. Now Flam the first note. Once you get it, you will have to STOP thinking and simple control it for max speed

[lletro]

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[TheJoe101]

dude, this is by a mile my best rudiment. i'm a freakin machine at these things. all they take is a little practice. make sure you don't focus on single stroking them too much. they're intended to be rebounded, so once you get 'em fast, they become more of sextuplets than triplets.

[Pitchaxistheorem]

i single stroke sadly. :(

[westhofer8]

ya thier fun to do. it sounds good in sum jazz stuff on set too

[TheJoe101]

dude, totally! i'm in my school's jazz band, and I always use this things as a 8th note triplet on beat 4 right before i crash

[BruisedEyeSockets]

I'm having some trouble getting this one up to the highest speed, and I've been working at it for a while. Any suggestions?

[drunkonworkahol]

I love these things

[plopenstien]

this is odd because before i started drumming i was doing this. i had no idea about it either i just did it once and thought it sounded cool. then i started drumming and found this. i was

WTF!

[southernguy92]

Do those sticks ever break XD

[Faststick]

i will take a swiss military drummer and post a video response..so you see how a traditional swiss military drummer plays them.

:-)

[xR34P3Rx]

is that just a flam -trip- let?

[EmEeArCee]

Yup. lR r l, lR r l

[Plazma360]

looks liek it lol

[warp525]

Not hard, but I can't do it as fast as he can.

[Youngcannonsticks]

i love swiss army tripllets

[homfencing]

Heh....just noticed he looks like he's using Promark DC10 sticks.....Blue Devils used those when I marched in 84....used ot have a pair...

[fatusd]

Oh My God. People shut up! You all sound so stupid fighting on who's right and wrong!

[yourusernamehere2]

Theres another variation where you use double strokes which is the same, with a different technique

[guitarist30]

you need to work on keeping your flams even at every speed you play them. you dont play an open grace note at slow speeds and close the space at faster speeds

[dukofrune]

your stupid your name is guitaris30 trying to give a drummer some advice... retard get a life

[brocknroll3333]

Right, I always forget that our Youtube account names are the summaries of our lives. Forgive me for thinking that I was allowed to talk about anything other than guitar since my account name is, after all, guitarist30. Also forgive me for the fact that Greg Shull, the director of Constitution Percussion (a WGI ensemble, in case you did not know) wants me to be on their snare line next year. Clearly I am incapable of being anything other than a guitarist, since my account name is guitarist30.

[guitarist30]

Sorry I posted on my friend's account name brocknroll3333. People stop watching this person's videos he is not good and should not be posting videos.

[Suyado]

..tee-hee. You're silly.

[kas36spires]

the name is wierd but guitarist30 is right; his flams did start to close up when he got faster.

[ironrocker13]

perhaps he is doing this to show precisely what he is playing.

you know, for the people out there that don't know what flams are.

[rayraybrin]

in actuality u are supposed to alternate..lol

NOT LIKE THE FLAM-ACCENT!!lol. the moment he finished(open-close-open) he shoulda began on the left side(open-close-open)..but remember it not always a must, kind of a plus. its just to show that u studied and can play fluently. kinda like the paradiddle-diddle :RLRRLL RLRRLL RLRRLL RLRRLL..(ETC) then left side: LRLLRR LRLLRR LRLLRR LRLLRR..(ETC)

[illbefamous]

no, umm your an idiot. The entire point of swiss triplet's is that you can play them really fast BECAUSE YOU DON'T ALTERNATE.

[rayraybrin]

um no im a percussion instructor... and i can tell u dont know how to read!

cause if u did read my comment properly and understood ..u wouldn't have made such a stupid statement

[illbefamous]

well sir, as a percussion student, I apologize. I realize that you didn't mean that they alternate everytime, but for him to finish with the right hand and then use the left, just to show he could.

[Mikelikes2rock]

You type like a 12 year old.

[LeGiTxBaDgEr]

@rayraybrin i don't mean this in any offensive way. i take lessons but, if your an instructor then why are you looking up an instructional drum video?

[pegglesex]

@rayraybrin I bet you failed English in high school.

[CAFanTom]

What do you mean "NOT LIKE THE FLAM-ACCENT?"

[linkinpark8696]

omg..some people are idiots..u dont alternate swiss army triplets...retards...

[clydeonyamaha]

those are swiss army triplets, you arnt supposed to alternate

[MADROCKS212]

play them hand to hand so people can really see how they are played

[lildrummerboy09]

These are so much fun to do

[bruisedupunk]

ya alternate in ur future videos... although real drummer dont need to look at an alternate..

[magicman6095]

he holds his sticks weird the left ands index finger pokes out weirdly

[michaelervine]

is there no alternative hand in a swiss triplet.

[Omikron]

Hoi yer being lazy! You're only doing rights you should be alternating between left and right

[Wex1117]

And if those weren't Swiss Army Triplets, then what were they?

[SrDrummer15]

Lmao that wasnt a swiss army go to vicfirthdotcom to find out wat a swiss army triplet is.sad very sad

[macka246]

lol, im only 12 and have been playing for only 2 years and i even knew that wasnt a swiss army triplet, work on your rudiments before teaching people the wrong things

[weinster02]

hey mid haven you dumbass you're talking about flam accents

[MidHeaven]

swiss army triplets are also supposed to alternate lead hands unlike this demonstration... flam(with right hand accent),left,right.. flam(with left hand accent),right,left... then back and forth as such

[P3rcuss10n]

LMAO Swiss Army Triplets Go Flam(R w/ Accent)R,L,Flam,R,L....

[Wex1117]

Those are flam accents.

[DeafMovieMan16]

it's a freaking Swiss Army Triplet you dumbshit LMAO!! Learn to drum dude!

[Wex1117]

Who me? I know what a Swiss Army Triplet is. Note the other comment I left (4 weeks ago it should say) where I said "And if those weren't Swiss Army Triplets, then what were they?". I was talking to Midheaven when I said "Those are flam accents". I hope you were talking to Midheaven.

[DeafMovieMan16]

I was talking to mid heaven. and there not flam accents too. The swiss army triplets, play a regular triplet, just add a flam on the accent and you have a swiss army triplet!!

[hanman16]

very sloppy

[bigups43]

are you drunk?