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This lesson looks at the Double Stroke Roll which is where you play 2
strokes per hand change.
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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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2007
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