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This skill is all about taking the singing pattern and adding "flams" and
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Starting with the very first lesson, you'll learn drumming techniques such as flams, drags, and one - and two-handed patterns for open and closed hi-hat, all while playing authentic rock beats and fills from celebrated drummers including Steven Adler (Guns N 'Roses), John Bonham (Led Zeppelin), Tré Cool (Green
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If you were a member of the "band and drums" you could at least exercise yourself a little better, clattering out your paradiddles, flams and ratamacues, than the others who had to stump about in their gleaming boots to the accompaniment of our music.
A Conversation with Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons 2010
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"Change you can believe in" can now be filed with those other historic flim-flams: "A chicken in every pot" [Herbert Hoover, 1928], "He kept us out of war" [Woodrow Wilson, 1916], "Compassionate Conservatism" [Bush, Junior, 2000].
Obama Hits Auto Execs As "Tone Deaf," Demands "Ethic Of Responsibility" For Business Bigs 2009
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Airbrushing, "interpolations," positing non-existent weather stations, creative "algorithms," frauds and flim flams in general - such is "science" in the age of ideological trumpery and triumphalism.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Let artists create works exposing their flim-flams along with their names.
Philip Slater: Creating A Register of Shame For White-Collar Malefactors 2009
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Airbrushing, "interpolations," positing non-existent weather stations, creative "algorithms," frauds and flim flams in general - such is "science" in the age of ideological trumpery and triumphalism.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Without that, the SEC's tough talk won't stop more Madoff flim flams.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: SEC's Tough Talk Won't Stop Madoff Flim Flams 2009
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I have made up as many flim – flams as the devil at the pulpit – desk, and called my old mother a hen, too, because she would cackle and crow.
Peer Gynt 2008
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I have made up as many flim – flams as the devil at the pulpit – desk, and called my old mother a hen, too, because she would cackle and crow.
Peer Gynt 2008
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