5 stroke roll ex's

Here's yesterdays 5 stroke roll fill's.

The first bar is the basic sticking ex for the 5 stroke single stroke roll. Make sure you practice it starting with both the right and the left hand as written.
The next two bars are examples of the same ex but phrased across the toms. If you practice these dynamically it adds proper musicality to the fill and to quote don becomes "proper drumming". Both phrased variations have an example starting with the left hand so practice those as well.

The last three are examples of when to play the five stroke roll within the context of a groove creating a pick up or fill. The first is the easiest with the fill starting on the 3rd beat of the bar so start with that one. I have written the fills just on the snare to start with so you can hear the placement of the fill. Once your comfortable try using some of the "phrased" and accented examples again try leading with the right and left hand.

Hope that all makes sense we'll do some more of these next lesson with some combinations of five stroke rolls so really get the basic rudiment under your hands.

Enjoy
Pete