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🎵 Five Stroke Roll on the drum kit: four beats, A to D — mess around all you want, nothing here saves
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92 BPM
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Five Stroke Roll drum beats

Four ways to play the Five Stroke Roll (RRLLR LLRRL) on the kit, at 92BPM. The rudiment's blocks carry its sticking under each note. This is one of the easier rudiments, so the groove around it has a little more going on. Slow the tempo down until every note is even, then bring it back up.

AGroove and fill
A groove, then the rudiment as a fill on the snare to end the phrase.
BIn the groove
The rudiment takes part of the bar; the backbeat stays where it is.
CAround the toms
The rudiment as a fill around the kit, with the kick under the accents.
DOver a pulse
The rudiment on the snare over a steady kick, the way you'd practice it to a click.

Change the hi-hat, the kick, the tempo and the kit as much as you like. Moving or changing the rudiment's own blocks takes a free account, which also puts all 40 rudiments in your block palette.

Learn the Five Stroke Roll on the snare first · All 40 rudiments