My music teacher gave me a snare piece to learn. I didn't look it over very well before I left and when I sat down today to learn it I noticed it has some rolls in it. I'm not very familiar with roll notation. Instead of waiting until next week to ask him about the notation I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction.
The piece is in 2/4 time. There are basically two types of rolls on the piece. One is an eighth note with two slashes on the stem tied to a quarter. The other is a half note with 3 slashes on stem.
I did some searching on google and couldn't find a good explanation of how roll notation works. Are these just double stroke rolls where each double is played on a 16th? Is there a significance to the two slashes versus three slashes on the stem?
My guess is that the eighth note tied to the quarter note is played as....
Code:
+ A 2
LLRRL (like a 5 stroke roll without the accent on the last note)
and I'm guessing the half note with the three slashes on the stem is played as....
Code:
1 E + A 2 E + A
RRLLRRLLRRLLRRLL
Are the rolls always played with the same number of strokes regardless of tempo?
Thanks in advance!
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