What is a 16th Note Drum Roll?

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Shaun Schaefer on behalf of Expert Village. Today, we're going to be learning how to play a drum roll. So the next step is finding a unit if you will, of measurement for how to count to play a drum roll. Most important thing in drumming is in fact, counting. And so I like to use sixteenth notes to count. Especially at the beginning when you're learning how to play a roll. You know when I'm playing a roll, I'm not counting sixteenth notes. I'm counting the beats of the measure or whatever we're doing. But I'm not counting each individual stroke. But to learn how to play a drum roll, we're going to use sixteenth notes to count and that really helps you get started quickly on how to play a drum roll. So sixteenth notes, what are they? If you take one measure, or one bar of music and you take one bar of sixteenth notes, there's sixteen notes in that one bar. You have your four quarter notes, one, two, three, four right? One, two, three, four. Well each of those quarter notes is four sixteenth notes. Four sixteenth notes times four quarter notes, sixteen notes in one bar. So if you count it one, two, three, four, one-e and ah two-e and ah three-e and ah four-e and ah one. That's how we count sixteenth notes. Is you got the quarter note, which would be like one. And then you have an e, and an and, and an ah. So one-e and ah two -e and ah three-e and ah four-e and ah one. So that's how you count sixteenth notes. And that's really going to get us started very quickly on how to play a drum roll. So let's go ahead and take a look at what our next step. is."