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Triple Stroke Roll

PAS rudiment #5 · Roll rudiments

What it is

Three strokes per hand, alternating. Sometimes called the French roll. Harder than it looks because the third stroke of each group tends to die.

How to practice it

The whole exercise lives in that third note. Use fingers to keep it as strong as the first two instead of letting the bounce fade. Play it as triplets at 60 to 80 BPM and accent nothing: three equal notes per hand. When the groups sound like one smooth stream instead of pairs of stutters, speed it up.

Where you'll hear it

Gospel chops, triplet fill runs, and hand-speed vocabulary all over modern fusion and metal playing.