Drum rudiments are nothing more than rhythmic patterns. You can play around with their note values, dynamics and orchestration. They’re killer for enhancing overall hand and foot technique and can be used quite effectively within drum beats, drum fills and drum solos. The problem most students face with drum rudiment apprenticeship is knowing what to with them. Sticking with a drum rudiment on a practice pad can get boring, redundant and old pretty fast. To get you motivated with drum rudiments, Jared Falk wrote this free drum lesson to show different ways in which you can use the five stroke roll – one of the 40 drum rudiments – within drum fills. More »
The seventeen stroke roll is the last pattern from the drum roll family of drum rudiments that we have to teach you. In this free drum lesson, Lionel Duperron breaks down the seventeen stroke roll on a practice pad, showing you exactly how to play it accurately. You’ll learn how to use the seventeen stroke roll within drum fills and drum beats as well. More »
The fifteen stroke roll is the next stepping stone on your way to become a master of the 40 drum rudiments. In this free drum lesson, Lionel Duperron, of the DrumLessons.com team of instructors, shares some valuable tips on how to play the fifteen stroke roll and teaches you how to use it within drum beats and drum fills. More »
With this free drum lesson, Lionel Duperron teaches you how to practice and play the thirteen stroke roll, a pattern from the drum roll family of drum rudiments. This lesson includes drum set applications for the thirteen stroke roll that you can use on your everyday playing, or as inspiration for coming up with your own thirteen stroke roll drum beats and drum fills. More »
In this free drum lesson, Lionel Duperron teaches you how to play the eleven stroke roll, a pattern from the drum roll family of drum rudiments. Give this lesson a try if you’re interested on learning how to play the eleven stroke roll. Don’t worry if you don’t like practicing drum rudiments on a practice pad. This free drum lesson features drum beats and drum fills incorporating the eleven stroke roll. This way, you can practice the eleven stroke roll with your whole drum set. More »
This free drum lesson is on one of the drum rudiments from the drum roll family, the ten stroke roll. In the video, Lionel Duperron teaches you how to play and how to practice the ten stroke roll effectively, so you can make the best out of your practice time. The 40 drum rudiments aren’t meant to be played on a practice pad only, so you’ll learn how to apply the ten stroke roll to the drum set through a couple of drum beats and drum fills as well. More »
In this free drum lesson, Lionel Duperron takes you to the practice pad to show you exactly how to play and practice the nine stroke roll – one of the drum rudiments from the drum roll family. He then moves to the drum set, unveiling the nine stroke roll’s hidden potential as the main inspiration for designing drum beats and drum fills. More »
Most of the 40 drum rudiments are usually perceived as being effective and useful for orchestra and marching band settings only. In this free drum lesson, Lionel Duperron takes care of all of those misconceptions by showing you how to apply the seven stroke roll to the drum set through a couple of drum beats and drum fills. More »
The six stroke roll is one of the coolest drum rudiments to apply to the drum set, and is actually one of the favorites among drummers. In this free video drum lesson, Lionel Duperron, one of the “DrumLessons.com” drum instructors, teaches you how to play, practice, and master the six stroke roll. Afterwards, he takes you to the drum set to show you exactly how the six stroke roll can be applied to the drum set in a couple of creative drum beats and drum fills. More »
In this free drum lesson, we’ll be taking a look at another pattern from the drum roll family of drum rudiments, the five stroke roll. In the video, Lionel Duperron shows you exactly how to play and practice the five stroke roll, so that later on you can take it to your drum set and apply it to a couple of creative drum beats and drum fills he wrote especially for you. More »
