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This lesson about drum rudiments introduces the Drags: Single and Double, Ruff, Drag paradiddles, Ratatap, Ratamacue.

The Drag, just like the Flam, doesn't have a precise musical lenght value, and it's made by a hand double weak stroke very closely followed by a stronger stroke by the other hand.
In drum sheet music the Drags are represented by two small notes with a legato tie put just befor the principal note. As in Flams, for a correct execution, the stick that plays the principal stroke starts from a superior height than the stick that plays the double, weak strokes.

The Drag, when coupled with triplets, is named Ratamacue; for a better understanding of the Ratamacue, you should study it after the previous lesson about triplets.
In the drum sheet you can find the musical notation of all the fundamental Drags covered in this class.

Learn to read the drum sheet music:    Drum set elements    Notes and Rests    Tie and Dot