In this lesson series, Vic Firth artist and Education Team member Dr. John Wooton breaks down the 40 Essential Rudiments in easy to understand concepts. This video covers the Five Stroke Roll
i've always done them from the right hand start because we never needed to alternate growing up. i knew i wasn't that epic. so i went in my own direction. what i felt. coming back to all this stuff. its really fun.
I've been using this "incorrectly" in that i do not pause after the fifth stroke, thereby creating a sort of "fivelet" fill. Don't know whether this is a "done" thing, but it's fun for me, though it would probably throw off other musicians. I begin with the single stroke.Maybe I'm just weird.
Not weird. They can be played repetitively like that. Just all in how it is written and how much space the notes take up in time. A five stroke roll and a "fivelett" are technically and notationally different.
