5 Stroke Roll Drum Fills
Learn how to use a five stroke roll to create fun drum fills
This Is The 5 Stroke Roll Drum Fills Lesson
Welcome to the 5 stroke roll drum fills lesson. Here we will learn how to use five stroke rolls in creative ways.
You are probably familiar with a five stroke roll but just to be sure; It consists of five notes played as:
r r l l R
and then reverse the sticking to play
l l r r L
Those last single notes are accents and the first four notes are played as very quiet double strokes.
Played on the snare drum this sounds like a military marching pattern, which is where it originated. But in this drum lesson we will explore how we can orchestrate these around the drum kit in different ways to create interesting drum fill ideas. We also play them across different subdivisions such as 16th notes, 8th note triplets and 32nd notes.
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