Hi, I'd like to ask you does the Roll technique only apply to Snare Drum?
The question about the Roll technique in percussion
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- KVRAF
- 2476 posts since 15 Apr, 2004 from Capital City, UK
I've never seen an instrument score using those strike-through marks as short-hand for a fast repeating/rolling of notes. Possibly because instruments tend to have notes so they have to be specified. Things like trills (fast switching between two notes) and fast runs or arpeggios need note information so this kind of shorthand wouldn't work on it's own.
In drum scores you're just telling the player how often to hit the drum so a short-hand cue like that would
A. speed up the hand-written form and
B make a piece of music look less 'dense', and slightly more readable.
So, I'd say that kind of note modifier only exists in drum or percussion scores.
In drum scores you're just telling the player how often to hit the drum so a short-hand cue like that would
A. speed up the hand-written form and
B make a piece of music look less 'dense', and slightly more readable.
So, I'd say that kind of note modifier only exists in drum or percussion scores.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 96 posts since 6 Sep, 2016
And what would you call the technique of hitting the tom so that the stick bounces freely?
For example in this video (from 1:45 to 1:47)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR0ybxJuTIY
For example in this video (from 1:45 to 1:47)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR0ybxJuTIY
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- KVRAF
- 2569 posts since 2 Jul, 2010
This strike-through notation is also used to indicate tremolo notes on other instruments, especially bowed strings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremolo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremolo
