Rudiment · Intermediate

Six stroke roll: sticking and a play-along

Accent, two doubles, accent — on a triplet feel. R L L R R L, the first and last accented. Snare is right, tom is left.

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Six stroke roll sticking

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

Right-hand lead

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

Left-hand lead

R is the right hand, L the left; the first and last of each group accented, shown bold. 12 strokes a bar.

Strokes a second at each tempo
BPM	60	70	80	100	120
Strokes a second	3	3.5	4	5	6

Six stroke roll: one row per drum, one column per triplet of a bar of 4/4
Drum	1	trip	let	2	trip	let	3	trip	let	4	trip	let
High tom (L)		x	x			X		x	x			X
Snare (R)	X			x	x		X			x	x

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

Plays it twice at 70 BPM.

Count: 1 trip let 2 trip let 3 trip let 4 trip let

The hands on every triplet, the right on the snare and the left on the high tom. Said aloud: 1 trip let 2 trip let 3 trip let 4 trip let

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 70 to 72 BPM, picked for their tempo alone, not for this pattern.

How many strokes a second is the six stroke roll?

12 strokes a bar at 70 BPM is 3.5 strokes a second. At 60 BPM it would be 3, and at 120 BPM 6.