Drum Rudiment Practice Pages

A rudiment is a short, named sticking pattern — the standardized vocabulary drummers use to build technique, just like scales for a pianist. The Percussive Arts Society (PAS) codifies the standard set nearly every method book, audition, and drumline teaches from, grouped into four families: rolls, paradiddles, flams, and drags.

Every rudiment page below gives the same five things: the sticking pattern written out, what it actually trains in your hands, the specific mistake a teacher would correct, a real starting tempo and how to build it up, and where the rudiment shows up in real playing.

Use the practice-tempo player on each page to click along at the suggested starting BPM, then raise it once a full minute sounds clean and even — no account or install needed.