ten stroke roll

A standard drum rudiment in the category of roll rudiments and the sub-category of double stroke open roll rudiments that creates a sustained sound on a percussion instrument by rapidly alternating two strokes from each drumstick. The sticking pattern (shown below) is the accepted method of producing a ten stroke roll and consists of two strokes from each hand repeated and finished with two accented strokes (e.g. RRLL-RRLL-RL) for a total of ten strokes. The sticking patterns are written where "L" represents the left hand stroke and "R" the right hand stroke.