Rudiments
Rudiments
Hand patterns practised against a click, laddered 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 BPM.
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Tier 1 · 40 BPM
Slow enough to hear both hands- Double Stroke Open Roll at 40 BPM: Getting the Second Note Free40 BPM · 40–96 · R R L L R R L L · Double stroke · 9 Aug 2026
An open roll is two clean single strokes per hand, not a buzz. The whole difficulty sits in the second note: it has to be produced by the wrist and fingers afte
- Single Stroke Roll at 40 BPM: The Tempo That Fixes Everything40 BPM · 40–104 · R L R L R L R L · Single stroke · 6 Aug 2026
Forty beats per minute is slower than most drummers can play cleanly, which is exactly why it belongs at the front of the book. At 40 BPM a single stroke roll i
Tier 2 · 60 BPM
Where stroke types start mixing- Five Stroke Roll at 60 BPM: Where Doubles Meet the Accent60 BPM · 60–120 · R R L L R · Double stroke · 17 Aug 2026
The five stroke roll is two doubles and an accent — RRLLR, then LLRRL. It is the first rudiment in this book that mixes two stroke types in one gesture, and it
- Single Paradiddle at 60 BPM: Accents That Move Without You60 BPM · 60–126 · R L R R L R L L · Paradiddle · 13 Aug 2026
RLRR LRLL is the most useful eight-note pattern in drumming because the accent lands on a different hand each time it comes round. At 60 BPM sixteenths you have
Tier 3 · 80 BPM
Odd groupings and moving accents- Single Stroke Seven at 80 BPM: Odd Numbers and the Hand Flip80 BPM · 80–160 · R L R L R L R · Single stroke · 26 Aug 2026
Seven strokes starting on the right end on the right, so the next group automatically starts on the left. That built-in flip is the reason the single stroke sev
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