How to Play the Double Stroke on a Djembe Drum

Video Transcript

" Hello! My name is Aaron Moon and I’m here today on behalf of expertvillage.com. Now the double stroke roll is a tiny bit different on a sneer drum using sticks, you can use your rebounds like I mentioned before but with a hand drum you’re just going to there’s really not an effective way to use a rebound, so you’re going to have to produce the double stroke with your wrist. So it follows along the same line as a single stroke roll, you can keep it a steady tempo or you can start slow gradually speed up, keep it at the sped up speed and bring it down, so here’s what it’ll sound like… So that’s another rudiment you can do and doing a single stroke and a double stroke is really going to it’s going to strengthen the muscles in your wrist and it’s going to over time make you a more efficient faster drummer."