Four Different Kinds Of Drum Strokes

 Four Different Kinds Of Drum Strokes

There are  4 different kinds of strokes that drummers use in a broad sense.  These 4 different drum strokes helps connect notes together.  

1.  Start High/End High
2.  Start High/End Low
3.  Start Low/End Low
4.  Start Low/End High

The 1st, and 3rd are continuous motions, since they start and end in the same place.  If you have many loud drum notes, you would continuously use stroke 1.  And likewise, many quiet drum notes would require stroke 3.   For stroke 2 and stroke 4, those are transitions in stick height which translates to volume.  They each require different techniques to pull off smoothly.  This video describes them pretty well: 





After you practice these on their own, try the following exercises to apply them!  (If there's nothing there, it's becuase I'm still working on putting this together so check back soon!) 

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