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Your favourite roll.
Just wondering what your fave is, can be open, closed, jazz, metal, whatever.
For me the best roll of all time is by Steve Gadd playing "Keep the Customeer Satisfied" at the Buddy Rich memorial concert. Technically it's two rolls at 1.10 and 1.26.
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I'm pretty fond of buzzing my rolls. Clean doubles are fun too, but I like to get this continuity of sound going, and break it up with accents. Like tearing paper.
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Tue May 13, 2008 10:03 am
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My current favorite roll is RLLR, but I'm not sure what notes I'm playing when using it.
I think I'm most oftenly (oftenly?) playing it as an 8th note triplet + an 8th note, or if I use it as a fill I often do 16th note triplet + 16th note... not sure at all about this though.
Tue May 13, 2008 10:19 am
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I don't know what the hell kind of roll I'm playing most of the time. I just liek to make them sound really fluid, like Bonzo at the end of 'When the Levee Breaks' and 'Kashmir'.
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Tue May 13, 2008 10:58 am
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My all time favourite roll is from a Reel Big Fish song called Suckers. This is the only video I could find that wasn't a live performance but with the album version in it. The roll starts at 2:59.
I personally like straight up single stroke rolls best, but what I love to play at the moment is RLKK RLRLKK RLRLKK with K being right foot kick. (when you play it really really fast it sounds pretty sick:D)
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I like the way 8 stroke continuous rolls flow.
Groups of 5, (Min-e-ap-pol-is is a nice 5 syllable word to use)
(R)LRL(R) (L)RLR(L) <--accent the first and last notes of the group
Then double the three middle notes.
(R)llrrll(R) (L)rrllrr(L)
That flows real nice.
Of course, you can play it in a "duple" scenario and it becomes a para-diddle-diddle-diddle.
RLrrllrr LRllrrll
Other than that one, I like those buttered rolls they used to give you at lunchtime....next time I'm back in Mississippi I'ma troll my old grade school and go git me some LUNCH.....
the roll neil peart does in 2112 that goes kinda like dddd dd dd dddd dd dd dddd dd
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Tue May 13, 2008 6:05 pm
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Hawaiian and Swiss Rolls are both really good.
As for drums, I've been practicing a lot of rolls/fills that involve doubles on the bass drum. Pretty much anything that Mike Johnston can do, I'm practicing to do. Especially this...
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besides the snare roll from wipe out...
but my all time favorite roll is simple rlrlrlrl -BBBUUUTTT- extremely fast and slowly going from barely audible to loud to louder to brutally explosive followed by more rlrlrl on the rack tom, back down to the snare, back to the rack tom and down to the floor tom, followed by a massive double crash hit right into a fast punk beat
haha, okay. maybe it wasn't all that simple
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I've recently learned to love RLL, you can accent the first R and then ghost the left hand double or just play them straight, it sounds awesome on the snare, and even better when you move the first stroke all around the kit, and keep the left playing ghosted doubles on the snare.
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Wed May 14, 2008 5:57 am
Rob Crisp groove master
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Funk pipe wrote:
I've recently learned to love RLL, you can accent the first R and then ghost the left hand double or just play them straight, it sounds awesome on the snare, and even better when you move the first stroke all around the kit, and keep the left playing ghosted doubles on the snare.
Cool, I do that one a lot! I often use it inside grooves (separating each second bar or so), rocks! Doesn't work well in higher tempos though, but lovely when you're playing like 120bpm and down. I play 'em as sixteenth notes (a broken one that is).
Wed May 14, 2008 6:38 am
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I do that but I will usually do it LRR unless I'm doing them as ghosts on the snare in a backbeat. I usually play the figure as a triplet.
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one that isnt great but i enjoy because its a challenge to screw up is. (all 16th notes)
Snare----oo-----oo-----oo--
Hi tom------oo-----oo-----oo
Med tom------oo-----oo-----
And u can just repeat it if necessary. Thats basically the first roll i learnt and if someone asked me to "do a roll" chances are thats what i would play
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