How to Increase the Speed of your Single Stroke Roll by 96 BPM
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Its not easy but it is possible.
Here's how to do it:
- Pick a single stroke roll exercise. It really doesn't matter what it is as long as you can play it to a click.
- When you practise it, start off at a slow click setting and keep putting it up a couple of BPM every few minutes.
- Do this until it's so fast that you can no longer play it.
- Repeat this every day for a long period of time.
Case study: Stuart
I set one of my drum students, Stuart, a single stroke roll exercise and recorded how fast he could play it. Then after practising it for 3 months, I again recorded how fast he could play it. To start off with, he was playing at 50 BPM and after 3 months he was at 146 BPM.
How did he do it?
He followed my advice outlined above and he practised it near enough every day for 3 months. If you did the same thing would you see the same improvement in speed? Maybe, maybe not. Would you see any noticeable difference? Absolutely, practising works!
Below is the exercise that I set him so you can try it out for yourself:
You'll see that the timing changes a lot.
This is because when you're working on the speed of your single stroke roll you should practice it at both slow and fast speeds.
The slow speeds will help with your timing and give your wrists a well needed break.
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