Concert Snare: Roll Techniques

One of the defining characteristics of Concert Snare Drumming is the treatment of rolls and sustain. These videos will help you calibrate your grip and maximize your tone for all roll applications.

Download and print this worksheet to help guide your practice. Use this example to guide your roll rhythm choices in the future.

Download and print this worksheet to help guide your practice. This is getting very detailed. Remember to listen first, and allow your ear to guide your hands. Applying these ideas too soon, and excluding intuitive musical communication, will make things more difficult than they need to be.

Download and print this worksheet to help guide your practice. This is for after you have a good roll going, but need more consistency over a wider dynamic range. Again, don’t over apply this material, but use it enough to solve your problems and get back to the ear.

Download and print this worksheet to help guide your practice. I’m almost hiding it down here so you know what you’re doing and can apply it musically BEFORE you start using the chart. The “roll starts” section is most applicable for articulations, and the rest is about nuance and playing the shape and line that ISN’T marked in the parts, but that your ear is picking up on.