Rudiment · Intermediate

Five stroke roll: sticking and a play-along

Two doubles and a single: the roll that ends on an accent. RRLL then an accented R; then LLRR and an accented L. Snare is right, tom is left.

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Five stroke roll sticking

R R L L R L L R R L

Right-hand lead

L L R R L R R L L R

Left-hand lead

R is the right hand, L the left; the last of each group accented, shown bold. 10 strokes a bar.

Strokes a second at each tempo
BPM	60	80	100	120
Strokes a second	2.5	3.3	4.2	5

Five 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
Snare (R)	x	x			X						x	x

Each column is a sixteenth. x is a hit, a bold X an accent.

Plays it twice at 80 BPM.

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

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

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

Easy songs at 78 to 82 BPM, picked for their tempo alone, not for this pattern.

How many strokes a second is the five stroke roll?

10 strokes a bar at 80 BPM is 3.3 strokes a second. At 60 BPM it would be 2.5, and at 120 BPM 5.