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Rudimental Drummers in 2004 to combat what he felt was an influx of foreign rudiments into American drumming. In 2009, Pratt was awarded a lifetime membership to the United States Association of Rudimental Drummers. Pratt died on April 6, 2020, from an unknown cause. Among his famous and influential students are Dennis DeLucia and Leopold Stokowski. Although he was a strong proponent of rudimental drumming he was quoted as saying, "Drum rudiments are exercises. The rudiments of drumming are strokes," giving deference to the basic 4
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and won many major drum line awards. He published several more books through the 1980s and 1990s. Despite triple-bypass heart surgery in 2000, he performed at the PASIC convention in 2001 and was inducted into the
Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2002. Pratt founded the International
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in 1960. In addition to teaching at West Point he worked with the
Interstatesmen and Gray Knights drum corps during this period. Pratt retired from the Army and graduated with a degree in English from
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