How to Play a Double Stroke Drum Roll

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Ken Marcou and I’m going to talk a little bit about doing drum rolls. Drum rolls are probably the single most important thing that you can learn how to do, drum rolls require your brain to be in tune with you know doing things like a machine but also you know your hands working with your brain and also having the muscle capability to make your hands work that way, so doing the drum roll is in many ways a comprehensive ecological thing that you need to learn how to do. If you can do that you can do pretty much anything because if you tune your body, your arms to do probably the most rigorous thing that you can do when you’re playing drums but you’ve also got your mind tuned out to do it too. There are other mind rudimental things that you can do that are more complex and they'll less taxing on your hands like an actual physical nature of playing but the drum roll is the first thing you should learn how to do. I’ll demonstrate, this is a double stroke roll, a double stroke roll is played by hitting twice with each stick like right right, left left, right right, left left, I’ll start slow and gain speed and then fade down…double stroke roll."