This lessons follows on from our Single Stroke Roll With Each Hand On A Different Drum lesson. It will be much easier to follow if you are familiar with the content from that lesson.
Continuing with ideas for orchestrating a single stroke roll, in this lesson you will be taking the basic rudiment as sixteenth notes and splitting it into groups of eight. Each of these groups of eighth will then be played on a different drum. These exercises will be pretty straight forward as you will only be using two different parts of the kit. The intention here is to get your comfortable with moving around the kit in 'blocks' of a set number and you will be expanding on this in later lessons. These patterns will work well as fills without any adjustment.
Feet have been included in some exercises. In those that don't have them try adding various patterns in and for those that do try using different feet parts.
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Tasks
Use the 2 minute rule to aim for the following target tempos. This list covers from level 0 to level 5 so potentially represents several years worth of practice.
- Level 0: 60bpm
- Level 1: 90bpm
- Level 2: 120bpm
- Level 3: 140bpm
- Level 4: Semi Quavers at 160bpm & Demi Semi Quavers at 80bpm
- Level 5: Semi Quavers at 180bpm & Demi Semi Quavers at 90bpm
- Level 5+: Semi Quavers at 200+bpm & Demi Semi Quavers at 100+bpm
- Create your own orchestrations using this concept.
- Use as many different feet patterns as you can think of with each exercise.
- Apply the orchestration concept to the rudiment in various other time signatures and note values.
- Use the orchestration as a fill in your general playing.
Up Next
I recomend covering our lesson on the The Single Stroke Roll In Groups Of Four next.
