Having been in a marching band, doubles (or rolls) were everything. At one point, my teacher gave me an exercise to play RRLL and then twice as fast RRLLRRLL, and practice that for five minutes every day, going as fast as possible while staying in control. Now that I am playing drums, I switched grip, and am doing basically the same but with matched grip instead of traditional grip to get my left hand up to speed. I am also practicing with a metronome, going at one tempo for one minute, and then upping them tempo by about 5 bpm and another minute, and again and again. Put in the work, it pays off!

As a 55 yo noob i love your tutorials. I've learned more from you than anyone else. Proper nuts and bolts tutorials. Thank you

Hands down, one of the very best teachers on KZfaq. You see what I did there, right?

What delightful teacher! You make learning so much fun. I think you are gifted.

Ha! I'm not even a drummer but I love your videos!

I’m 67 years old I started playing drums about four years ago and I think you’re excellent I would love to see all of your teachings in one section so I can go directly to it all the time and find them I don’t have a lot of time left😅

This is really fun to follow your lessons. Please continue. You are a really good teacher and it makes it easier for me to lurn the drums.

Another excellent vid. Thanks again, nice that your're teaching finesse.

I'm returning to drums after a long period away and your tutorials are helping alot,thank you,a good teacher is priceless,pay attention young drummers!

Hella yes, perfect explanation, love it!

I love the fucking swagger she has while explaining shit.

Drumming isn't exists without this and all the other rudiments!!

You're awesome and your skills are outstanding.

Love your lessons Emma. As a longtime intermediate drummer I like the way you break it down so that it's fun and seems less daunting. Also I'm totally infatuated with your accent so I'd watch a video of you reading your shopping list 😊

Thank you 🙏💯

Thanks for this ❤

Gwaan gal. Big up 👍👍

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Thanks!

I prefer the thumb and middle finger fulcum, it does not require as much pinching tension as the thumb and index and give the stick more room, try double with both and a bet you will find the middle finger fulcum gets two more equal louder strikes.

Thank you very much for your videos. Because of them, I'm improving my drumming at my fifties 😅😅

When I was 15 I started playing doubles everywhere,on my laps,without sticks on the desk in class( and I was constantly kicked out of class),but eventually I got real good at doubles. You need to put in the work,like she says.

Now I can do those 2112 fills! 😁

Can you provide the link to the video showing how you apply the doubles, please? I was hoping to find it in the description but it's not there. Thanks.

can we see how to do 16ths faster please

Plz let combo with kick😊

You forgot to talk about getting the two notes of each double to be even with each other (or as close to even as possible). 😉 I learned doubles by playing two separate wrist strokes per hand, gradually increasing the tempo until it became too fast to do that. Rebound sort of happens on its own at that point, but only if you spend the time practicing the wrist strokes first. I use a middle finger fulcrum, and use subtle pressure from the middle finger to control the rate of rebound. I find this method to be the best for playing extremely fast, because it requires the least amount of movement. However, at tempos more commonly used in music, I'll sometimes do a push-pull thing, similar to what you do but with more arm and less wrist, sort of like a wind-up toy, because the doubles sound a tiny bit more even to me. The way I practiced was to do a minimum of 3 minutes per day without stopping, plus 3 minutes for each of the short rolls (with the singles of the short rolls being the same duration as the two notes of a double, so the hands never stop moving). Actually, for the one-sided short rolls (7, 11, 15, 6, and 10) it was 9 minutes - 3 minutes each side, plus 3 minutes of alternating lead hands. Not only are you building your doubles that way, you're developing your ability to play polyrhythms as well.

have I not seen this video before?