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The Double Stroke Roll
is where you play 2 strokes per hand change, alternating
hands.
The trick to making the double stroke roll sound clean
and even at faster tempos, is to make sure that the
fingers produce and snap out the second stroke per hand
change.
Inconsistent volume levels between the first and second
strokes (per hand change) arise when the 2nd stroke is
simply "bounced" instead of played. Meaning, that
instead of the fingers actually producing the 2nd stokes
motion, and hence getting the same volume as the first
stroke, the drummer just relies on the rebound from the
first stroke to give them the 2nd stroke. Not only is it
harder to control this bounce, but you will never be
able to get the same volume level as the first stroke,
because a "bounced stroke" doesn't have the momentum or
velocity behind it to be as loud.
So this means that you must
use the fingers to get the second
stroke out. So train your back 3 fingers to produce the
sticks motion, don't just rely on wrist speed, and
definitely don't take the back 3 fingers off the stick
all together and bounce the stick with a "fulcrum only
kind of" technique.
You can almost get away with bouncing the second stroke
if you play a double stroke roll at softer volumes,
since you don't need much volume (hence momentum and
velocity) from the second stroke to get the same volume
as the first. But ultimately the bounce idea is doomed
at louder volume levels and also doesn't offer the full
control that the fingers approach does.
Bottom line - train and use the back 3 fingers, don't
rely on wrist, don't rely on bounce alone. |
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