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Before the Beat: Your First Flam
A flam has two contacts: a quiet grace note from the opposite hand lands just before the louder main note on the beat.
Plain prints every note in black, without the color coding.
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Flam demonstration
- Main beats only (no grace notes)0:23
- Full flams with grace notes0:23
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