Free tool

Rudiment timer

27 rudiments — rolls, paradiddles, flams and drags — each with its sticking and a suggested starting tempo, over a metronome that climbs on its own. That is how rudiments are actually built: slow, even, and a little faster every minute.

Rudiment

Single Stroke Roll

RLRL RLRL RLRL RLRL

Alternating singles at sixteenth notes, accenting each beat. The foundation of everything else here.

Suggested start: 80 BPM · 4 beats per cycle

80BPM

stopped

TempoBeats per bar

Tempo rampSpeed up automatically

FromToStepEvery … bars

Set a slow start and a fast finish, and it climbs on its own. Setting "to" lower than "from" ramps downward, which is a real practice technique — it exposes the notes you were getting away with.

Tip: set the ramp from a touch below the suggested tempo to a touch above it, and let it climb while you keep the sticking even. Hearing each rudiment played on a real kit — with the kit view lit up — lives in the drums room.

Made as part of 66music — 1,254 practice exercises for guitar, piano, bass and drums.