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🎵 Double Ratamacue on the drum kit: four beats, A to D — mess around all you want, nothing here saves
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76 BPM
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Double Ratamacue drum beats

Four ways to play the Double Ratamacue (llR llR L R L rrL rrL R L R) on the kit, at 76BPM. The rudiment's blocks carry its sticking under each note. This is one of the harder rudiments, so the kit keeps out of its way: quarter-note time and room to breathe. Slow the tempo down until every note is even, then bring it back up.

AGroove and fill
A groove, then the rudiment as a fill on the snare to end the phrase.
BIn the groove
The rudiment takes part of the bar; the backbeat stays where it is.
CAround the toms
The rudiment as a fill around the kit, with the kick under the accents.
DOver a pulse
The rudiment on the snare over a steady kick, the way you'd practice it to a click.

Change the hi-hat, the kick, the tempo and the kit as much as you like. Moving or changing the rudiment's own blocks takes a free account, which also puts all 40 rudiments in your block palette.

Learn the Double Ratamacue on the snare first · All 40 rudiments