Drum Rolls for Different Settings

Video Transcript

"Now there are a few different rolls that are played and notated on the snare drum. One being the open stroke roll and then there is the buzz roll. Now this is a little bit different on the marching snare drum opposed to the concert snare drum. Concert settings you are going to hear a lot more buzz rolls than necessarily open stroke rolls. In a marching setting, you usually play quite a few of both. When you see in the music I've written out what will be an open stroke roll. So if you see th is notated in your music with 3 line, that indicates 30 second notes. So really it is called a roll but it is really a rhythm and there should be 32 of them within a 4/4 bar. So for a buzz roll you are going to see a Z on the note like that and for the buzz roll the sticks are a lot more closed down and you get that nice buzz sound."