Rudiment · Intermediate

Double stroke roll: sticking and a play-along

Two strokes a hand: right right on the snare, left left on the tom. Let the second stroke bounce; it should be as loud as the first.

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Double stroke roll sticking

R R L L R R L L R R L L R R L L

Right-hand lead

L L R R L L R R L L R R L L R R

Left-hand lead

R is the right hand, L the left. 16 strokes a bar.

Strokes a second at each tempo
BPM	60	80	84	100	120
Strokes a second	4	5.3	5.6	6.7	8

Double stroke roll: one row per drum, one column per sixteenth of a bar of 4/4
Drum	1	e	&	a	2	e	&	a	3	e	&	a	4	e	&	a
High tom (L)			x	x			x	x			x	x			x	x
Snare (R)	x	x			x	x			x	x			x	x

Each column is a sixteenth. x is a hit.

Plays it twice at 84 BPM.

Count: 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a

The hands on every sixteenth, the right on the snare and the left on the high tom. Said aloud: 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a

Each note is judged on when it lands, within 140 ms, and on which drum, not on how hard. All of what DRUMY judges.

Easy songs at 83 to 85 BPM, picked for their tempo alone, not for this pattern.

How many strokes a second is the double stroke roll?

16 strokes a bar at 84 BPM is 5.6 strokes a second. At 60 BPM it would be 4, and at 120 BPM 8.