Part 3 · Rudiments · Chapter 39

The Seven-Stroke Roll

The seven-stroke roll is three doubles and an accent: R R L L R R L. It is a longer version of the five-stroke roll and, because of the odd number of doubles, it ends on the opposite hand.

EXAMPLE 39.1Seven-stroke rolls
TEMPO

The roll fills three sixteenths and lands on the a.

EXAMPLE 39.2Written out
TEMPO

Three doubles and a single, at half speed.

Count the doublesTIP

Five-stroke: two doubles. Seven-stroke: three. Nine-stroke: four. The number in the name is always the doubles times two, plus one.

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