Correct me if I’m wrong, but are you just referring to the first 13 NARD rudiments? If so, those are not the most basic. They are the ones required for membership, and nothing more or less than that. Any list without the single stroke but with the triple ratamacue is not intended to represent the most basic patterns.
Why 13? First, let’s get our vocabulary established. Rudiment-BASIC principle or element or a fundamental skill ( foundation that you build on. That would mean the basic building blocks of playing the drums. Your “hybrid rudiments” are NOT basic building blocks ( rudimentary), they are COMBINATIONS of the basic building blocks. Below are the essential rudiments. Once a person learns these, they can combine them in any fashion they so desire. You can call them whatever your heart desires, but they will still break down to the original basic stick strokes known as rudiments.
I know what basic means and I’m well aware that a hybrid rudiment is an extension beyond what is considered normal. I just wonder how you arrived at exactly 13 and why? You could boil drumming down to 4 basic strokes, tap, up, down, full. You could also assume that singles, doubles, triples, quadruples, and buzzes of indeterminate length are “basic” because you need all of those skills to play the standard 26 NARD rudiments or anything else, for that matter. Any rudiment is one of those 5 stroke numbers combined with one or more of the basic strokes. Many people say you “only need singles, doubles, and flams” but that’s definitely incorrect. It’s not enough skills to cover everything. So, my main question is how you arrived at 13 rudiments and which ones. I don’t see them in your comment. That seems as arbitrary as anything else.
Great stuff ... I gotta start working on those inverted cheese a whatnots 😆🧀
Also omitted is the single stroke roll. And the flamacue was added in it’s place(flam added to the beginning of a short single stroke pattern)
Correct me if I’m wrong, but are you just referring to the first 13 NARD rudiments? If so, those are not the most basic. They are the ones required for membership, and nothing more or less than that. Any list without the single stroke but with the triple ratamacue is not intended to represent the most basic patterns.
There are 13 basic rudiments. Any others are hybrids of them.
Why 13? Which 13 do you think are the “basic” ones? And how did you decide this?
Why 13?
First, let’s get our vocabulary established.
Rudiment-BASIC principle or element or a fundamental skill ( foundation that you build on.
That would mean the basic building blocks of playing the drums. Your “hybrid rudiments” are NOT basic building blocks ( rudimentary), they are COMBINATIONS of the basic building blocks.
Below are the essential rudiments. Once a person learns these, they can combine them in any fashion they so desire. You can call them whatever your heart desires, but they will still break down to the original basic stick strokes known as rudiments.
I know what basic means and I’m well aware that a hybrid rudiment is an extension beyond what is considered normal. I just wonder how you arrived at exactly 13 and why? You could boil drumming down to 4 basic strokes, tap, up, down, full. You could also assume that singles, doubles, triples, quadruples, and buzzes of indeterminate length are “basic” because you need all of those skills to play the standard 26 NARD rudiments or anything else, for that matter. Any rudiment is one of those 5 stroke numbers combined with one or more of the basic strokes. Many people say you “only need singles, doubles, and flams” but that’s definitely incorrect. It’s not enough skills to cover everything. So, my main question is how you arrived at 13 rudiments and which ones. I don’t see them in your comment. That seems as arbitrary as anything else.