Hi, I am Wes Crawford, and now were going to explore the double stroke roll. Just like its name implies, were going to hit twice with each hand. Now, this is not nearly as intuitive as a single stroke roll, and you probably havent been sitting around your dinner table doing this with your knife and fork, or at your school or office, beating double strokes, but its very, very valuable. A lot of the rolls and marching bands that you hear and drum set solos are using double strokes. Double strokes are difficult to learn, they will take a while. So, this is a step where you will keep practicing, but you can go on to more steps while youre practicing this and getting better and better. Basically were going to do it again as a callisthenic, in other words, slow to fast to slow. If you play slow to fast to slow with the band youre with, youre probably going to get fired. So, its not a real life kind of thing, its something to work your technique and your stamina and your strength all up so that you could then use it musically. The double stroke roll will go right right, left left, right right, left left, all evenly, and we will go slow to fast to slow. This is a demonstration. Its important to be aware of your strokes; straight up and down, using your wrists, and that youre striking in the same place to get the same sound. So, also important with anything in drumming, to make sure youre relaxed throughout your body. One way you might want to test this is try singing a song as you do it. Try singing Yankee Doodle. If youre singing like Yankee Doodle went to town, something like that, youre probably too tense. If youre relaxed when you can do it then youre probably more relaxed throughout your body. Now, the double stroke roll, as you can see, you can go very fast and once you get this down, its much more effortless to continue to play for longer periods then it is with the single stroke roll, so theyre both very important. Theyre the foundations of Western drumming; the single stroke roll and the double stroke roll, and its how we use them that it develops our technique, and will sort of identify what direction we will go, how we want to use things in a lot of our drumming, and will allow you to play so many things.