 As he explained, drummers in surf bands often play songs using no cymbals, just kick drum, snare drum, and toms.He also borrowed from the drum part to "Going to a Go Go" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.The final ingredient, he said, was the drum rudiment called a flam, in which one drumstick strikes the drum just before the other does; the flam registers as a single beat, but with a particularly full sound.