Developing Double Stroke Rolls on the Drum Set 

Here is a video lesson on developing double stroke rolls on the drum set for fills and soloing. Using these techniques creates an illusion of speed with little energy expended when compared to using single strokes. For this lesson I use page 121 from my book Advanced Coordination for Drum Set and Hand Percussion for demonstration purposes.
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I show you how to use this page by interpreting each 16th note as a 32nd stroke diddle resulting in a double stroke roll. I then apply this concept around the drums while filling in doubles with the bass drum.
The drums I am using for this video are 1990's Gretsch Catalina Elites
They feature a 16" Bass Drum, 12 and 14" toms and a 12" snare drum.
The Cymbals are a Paiste 16” Sound Creation Dark Flat ride, an 18” Paiste 1970's 602 medium flat Ride and an 18” re-mix Zildjian ride as well as 12” Zildjian re-mix hi hats.
The mics are 2 Sennheiser MKH 800 overheads and a Shure Beta 52 on the bass drum.