Single stroke / Herta exercises

A few of the drumline exercises we looked at recently can easily be tweaked to work single strokes.

 

First, "The Grid".  Go through it with doubles as the variable, but instead of a double stroke, play it as two single strokes, or a "herta", if you will.

 

 

Next, do the same thing with Triplet Rolls.  This one works really nicely as it will end on the opposite hand that you start with, so you can just go around again on the other side.

 

 

 

Finally, this is another piece from the drumline "songbook", called "Pantera".  I have no idea who wrote it, and it seems like no one else does either.  It just appears to be like a folk tune with an unknown composer.

 

 

With all of these, keep your heights consistent; full, but not pounding, and don't add any accents.