Ghost Flams
A few weeks ago I was out on the “One Life” Tour with 33Miles and a kid at one of the shows we were at asked me if I knew how to do a Ghost Flam. He was a marching band drummer in High School and I had no clue what he was talking about. I’ve never really been into the marching band chops world being strictly a drum kit player, but I thought I’d check them out. I spent about a week or two working them up and this video is a little demonstration of what you can do with them. This may just be the entry way into all of these cool little stick trick ideas, and it’s a really cool thing to learn if you’ve got time to kill on the road :)
November 14th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
You’ve got it down pat…I use a lot of these flam type tricks while playing latin style music. Timbale players use the technique a lot. Good skill to have under your belt. It’s funny.. Where did I learn this rudiment?…Marching band back in high school. We would control them very tightly, I mean exact heights, etc. in the drum line.
December 1st, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Ah yeah that’s really cool. Never thought of using that on percussion as well. I learned that from watching some random videos on drummerworld.com. I saw someone doing that and thought, I guess that would be cool to figure out :) That’s pretty much how I come up with new things, I see someone doing something cool and then I adapt it to what I do and learn how to use it.