Hi All,
My brain is having some trouble in deciding wether to use singles or doubles in snare accent patterns. I play rock music almost exclusively, and it seems many of the drummers i look up to use almost exclusively single strokes to execute snare rolls and patterns, as they simply have more power like this I believe.
However, my natural incline is to use double strokes on the unaccented notes and singles on the accented, in a flow of say 8th/16th notes.
Do you think it is purely down to what I have practiced more? For example, i have probably put more time into rudiments with diddles than purely single stroke playing. Maybe I just need to soend a bit more time playing single stroke rolls.
Take this situation - playing a continuous flow of 16th notes at 130 bpm, with every 3rd 16th note accented, giving a 'steam train' sort of beat. I am struggling to execute this as my brain is wanting to play both singles and doubles for all the unaccented notes.
Maybe I am overthinking and just need to play the damn thing!
My brain is having some trouble in deciding wether to use singles or doubles in snare accent patterns. I play rock music almost exclusively, and it seems many of the drummers i look up to use almost exclusively single strokes to execute snare rolls and patterns, as they simply have more power like this I believe.
However, my natural incline is to use double strokes on the unaccented notes and singles on the accented, in a flow of say 8th/16th notes.
Do you think it is purely down to what I have practiced more? For example, i have probably put more time into rudiments with diddles than purely single stroke playing. Maybe I just need to soend a bit more time playing single stroke rolls.
Take this situation - playing a continuous flow of 16th notes at 130 bpm, with every 3rd 16th note accented, giving a 'steam train' sort of beat. I am struggling to execute this as my brain is wanting to play both singles and doubles for all the unaccented notes.
Maybe I am overthinking and just need to play the damn thing!