The Double Stroke Roll In Groups Of Two

This lesson follows a similar concept to our double stroke roll in groups of eight and four and links to these lessons can be found at the bottom of the page. Similar movements have been covered for other rudiments and you can also find links to some of these below.

Continuing with ideas for orchestrating a double stroke roll, in this lesson you will be taking the basic rudiment as sixteenth notes and splitting it into groups of two. Each of these groups of two will then be played on a different drum, in pretty much the same way you did in the previous lessons. These exercises will be slightly harder than before as you will be moving many more times within the bar, but this should still br pretty straight forward. The intention here is to further improve your ability to move around the kit in 'blocks' of a set number and you will be expanding on this some more in later lessons. These patterns will work well as fills without any adjustment, but as with the previous lesson a single stroke sticking may be preferable in that case.

Feet have been included in all exercises. For this concept it is acceptable to use the same drum twice within a bar as long as two groups of four aren't played on the same drum in a row. For example '2x Snare, 2x High Tom, 2x Mid Tom, 2x Snare' is acceptable but '2x Snare, 2x Snare, 2x High Tom, 2x Mid Tom' is not.


Exercise 1

Double stroke roll played as groups of two


Exercise 2

Double stroke roll played as groups of two


Exercise 3

Double stroke roll played as groups of two


Exercise 4

Double stroke roll played as groups of two


Exercise 5

Double stroke roll played as groups of two


Exercise 6

Double stroke roll played as groups of two


TASKS

  1. Using the 2 Minute Rule, get all exercises up to a tempo of at least 120bpm.
  2. Create your own orchestrations using this concept.
  3. Experiment with various different feet patterns in all exercises.

Lessons

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