A couple of months ago, I introduced a new Snare Drum Roll Exercise. I hope this has helped develop your roll technique.
In the past couple of episodes of my videos, I have begun to talk about the bounced stroke. For most students, this is the most difficult rudiment on the snare drum. If you don’t believe me, go to a high school band concert. I find most students push too hard and don’t allow the stick to do most of the work.
In this exercise sheet, I have created an additive process exercise that starts with one bounce on a note and adds one bounced stroke per line. In the first measure, the foundation is introduced followed by the bounced stroke in the second measure. One of the goals was to make sure to that both hands were working on the bounced strokes.
Over the past couple of weeks, we have be exploring the flam rudiments. In this episode, I introduce our first roll rudiment: The Single Stroke Roll. For a complete list of rudiments, please visit episode 5.
In today’s episode, we continue with the flam rudiments and talk about the flamacue and the flamadiddle (flam paradiddle). Be sure you execute the flam properly before diving into these new rudiments. For a complete list of rudiments, click here.
In this episode, we continue our snare drum rudiments and introduce the double and triple paradiddle. For a complete list of the rudiments, check out Episode 5.
In this episode, I introduce the concept of rudiments on the snare drum. Rudiments are scales for the snare drum and we will start with the paradiddle. If you are a teacher, what is the first rudiment you teach to a new student? Why?
A couple of months ago, I introduced a new Snare Drum Roll Exercise. I hope this has helped develop your roll technique. 
