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Snare drum

The Rudiments

The snare drum rudiments, as established by the Percussive Arts Society. consist of the traditional 26 rudiments along with a number of drum corps, orchestral, European, and contemporary drum rudiments. The list is available in HTML format, as well as in downleadable PDF format.
The drum rudiments page from the Vic Firth site. A closer look at each of the rudiments with video demonstrations, audio examples at different speeds and suggested working methods.
The Rudimental Drumming.com site: everything about rudiments, with exercises, articles, discussions, videos, competition results, hyperlinks, etc.

 

Around the rudiments

In Vic Fith's site, a page about Jeff Queen, soloist in the award winning show Blast! and drum virtuoso. this page contains an interview with Jeff and a few exercises.
Other videos, again with Jeff Queen, and with DCI competitions finalists in Vic Firth's media vault. A must see!