Hi everyone. Welcome to lesson 6 – Single stroke rolls.
In this blog/video lesson I try and give you a quick look at how versatile the single stroke roll can be.
In the first part of this video, I show how to take a basic single stroke groove and apply it in many different ways around the kit utilising all of the cymbals and toms. The sticking stays the same (R L R L R L R L) but used on different parts of the kit, the grooves sound very different!
I have recorded examples of grooves using 16th note single strokes and triplets.
After the groove demonstrations I have a quick look at fills. Experiment with your own but don’t forget to count.. If you’re playing a groove using 16th notes, your fill should also contain a maximum of 16 notes also.
The final section looks at accents and how you can alter the position of your accented notes to create ‘normal time’, half time and double time feels.
I hope you all enjoy looking at single stroke rolls. Next lesson, I will be taking a look at flam rudiments.
See you all soon
Graeme
