As we continue to include sections from Joe Franco’s book Double Bass Drumming, this month Joe teaches us about playing accented rolls and accent patterns over a double bass drum roll that uses his Single Stroke System. This is a fantastic way to expand your double bass vocabulary, and is a very powerful sound. Accented Rolls and Accented Patterns with Triplets In these exercises, an accented single stroke roll (appearing on the left column of each exercise) and the accent (or a syncopated) pattern of that roll (appearing on the right column) of each exercise are played over the double bass roll. Accented roles and accented patterns can be interpreted in many ways. Here are a few suggestions for playing this section: -Play the accented roll on the snare using rimshots for all accents.-Play the accented roll on anyone drum by playing the accents loud and the unaccented (ghost notes) […]

February 2023 Issue