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How To Develop A Smooth Single Stroke Roll

A single stroke roll is one of the easiest techniques to learn, but one of the most difficult to master. Here’s how to make it sound smooth as silk.

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How To Play A One-Handed Roll

All drummers want to learn how to play a one-handed roll, and in this video lesson, Tiger Bill shares the technique he learned from Joe Morello.

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How To Develop Hand Speed & Control

It doesn’t matter if you use traditional or matched grip, you should always make use of natural rebound when you strike a pad or drum. In these exercises, Tiger Bill shows you how to play with speed and finesse without feeling tension.

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Speed Lesson #80: Five Stroke Roll - Part 2

Don't miss Tiger Bill's speed lesson drills on five-stroke rolls.

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Speed Lesson #78: Backsticking Tricks Part 3

Tiger Bill teaches backsticking tricks in Speed Lesson #78.

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Tiger Bill’s Backsticking Tricks Part 2

Check out some neat backsticking tricks of the trade

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Tiger Bill Speed Lesson #75

For the past two lessons, we've been practicing the execution of a single and a double accent across single paradiddle sticking.

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Tiger BIll’s Speed Lesson #74

This is a workout that's designed to help you improve your ability to place two accents anywhere within a given sticking pattern.

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Tiger Bill Lesson #72; Jazz Ride Speedy Fill-ins

In this concluding segment, we're taking the exercises you practiced from the previous two lessons and applying them to the drumset. If you haven't studied parts one and two yet, please do so before working on this one.

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Tiger Bill Speed Lesson #66

These exercises are based on a lesson that I originally developed for a drum clinic and it has become one of my most popular clinics over the years. Drummers always have lots of fun comparing their chops to that of the legendary Buddy Rich, who was capable of maintaining his single stroke roll at speeds of up to about 950 beats per minute (bpm).