How to Play Right-Right-Left-Left Technique in a Drum Roll

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Shaun Schaefer on behalf of Expert Village. Today, we're going to be learning how to play a drum roll. Now that we know how to play sixteenth notes, we're going to switch it up a little bit. We're still going to play sixteenth notes, but right now we've been playing our sixteenth notes right left, right left right left, right left. Or alternating. Now what we're going to do is we're going to practice playing sixteenth notes double stroke, if you will. And we'll get into like single stroke, double stroke later. But actually we're going to be playing it a different sticking. And instead of right left, right left, right left, we're going to play right right, left left, right right, left left while we're counting. So let's get started. One-e and ah two-e and ah three-e and ah four-e and ah. One-e and ah two-e and ah three-e and ah four-e and ah. One-e and ah two-e and ah three-e and ah four-e and ah. One-e and ah two-e and ah three-e and ah four-e and ah one. Now as you can see, when you play right right, left left, right right, left left, they should or the intent is to make them sound exactly as if you were playing right left, right left. You should be able to play sixteenth notes right left, right left, to right right, left left, or alternating to double and it shouldn't sound any different. It's going to because you're playing differently on the, in different spots on the drum. And that's going to make different sounds. So keep practicing the right right, left left and if it's too fast, once again, pull it back and slow down. But you started basically playing a roll. Now we're just going to get into some more mechanical things and how to do different things and make it sound like the roll that you want to play. So let's take a look at our next step."