Hi, I am Wes Crawford and now were going to talk about the single stroke roll. This is an exercise that every drummer on any kind of instrument around the world practices. Its what you probably have been doing before you have been playing drums on your school desk or at your dinner table with your knife and fork. We just hit one hand at a time, back and forth, and when we do this were going to go gradually from slow to fast to slow. Practice this so gradually that it drives everybody in your vicinity crazy. The reason you want to do this is you will get more out of it by practicing gradually. It takes you so long to go from slow to fast, hold it at your fastest for a while, to build up your stamina, and then you really build up your stamina and control as you go from fast, back down to slow, because you will have already been playing for so long. Here is a demonstration, and I think you should actually do it more gradually than this. Again, Im doing this just to demonstrate, slow to fast to slow, the single stroke roll, alternating right and left hands. Notice that my strokes are about six inches high. Dont try to do really big strokes right now. You will get the most control at the six to eight inch height, and you will be able to do move around the drums more efficiently. Notice I stretched it out, slow to fast to slow, dont cheat at the home stretch and end it too quickly.