The flam drag is usually played in triplets. Taking a look at the sheet music below, you can see that all the strokes in a flam drag are played as 8th note triplets, except for the “trip” of each count, which is a 16th note triplet double stroke. If you take the flam accent and the flam drag drum rudiments and put them side-by-side, you’ll notice that the main difference between them is really what it’s played on the “trip” of each count - a single stroke tap on the flam accent and a double stroke tap on the flam drag.
