The idea behind this lesson is very simple, you are going to play a bar of single stroke roll followed by a bar of double stroke roll. It takes a little practice to get your brain to shift from working in one rudiment to another but it is worth doing for the improved hand co ordination you will achieve.
Exercise 1
Start off by playing both rudiments as quavers. Here you have one bar of singles as quavers followed by one bar of doubles as quavers. Repeat this pattern over.
TASK
- Use the Two Minute Rule to get this exercise up to a tempo of at least 120bpm.
Exercise 2
Double the note values to sixteenth notes.
TASK
- Use the Two Minute Rule to get this exercise up to a tempo of at least 100bpm.
Exercise 3
Sticking with the rudiments as semi quavers, play two bars of each rudiment before switching.
TASK
- Use the Two Minute Rule to get this exercise up to a tempo of at least 100bpm.
Exercise 4
Going back to playing the rudiment as quavers, play half a bar as singles and half a bar as doubles.
TASK
- Use the Two Minute Rule to get this exercise up to a tempo of at least 120bpm.
Exercise 5
Next, play half a bar as singles and half a bar as doubles as sixteenth notes.
TASK
- Use the Two Minute Rule to get this exercise up to a tempo of at least 100bpm.
Exercise 6
Finally, play one beat as singles and one beat as doubles, all as sixteenth notes.
TASK
- Use the Two Minute Rule to get this exercise up to a tempo of at least 100bpm.
ADDITIONAL TASKS
- Create further singles to doubles exercises. For example four bars of each rudiment.
- Add feet into the exercises above.
- Orchestrate the exercises above.
- Reverse the exercises so you start on a double stroke roll.
