How to play Double Stroke?

Double Strokes is built upon Single Strokes. You have to master your Single Strokes to be able to play your Double Strokes well! Do check out Lesson 5 Part 1 on Single Strokes if you haven’t!

Sticking for the Double Stroke roll

The notations above shows which hand Is playing which note. To play the Double Stroke, you hit your Drum with each hand twice. The first hit should be a Full Stroke, the second hit being a Half Stroke.

A quick recap on what is Full Stroke and Half Stroke:

Full Stroke
Played with a wrist angle of 90 degrees or more. The Full Stroke produces the loudest sound.

Half Stroke
Played with a wrist angle of 45 degrees or more. The Half Stroke is softer than Full Stroke.

How to practice your Double Stroke

By going from Slow to slow and going from Fast to Slow!
Gradually Increase or Decrease the speed at which you are playing.

Grab apair of Drum Sticks and your Practice Pad, Snare Drum or hit any hard surface to practice your Double Stroke now!