I will be teaching in the Augusta, Ga area in January 2014: / 531103140312883 A little video on how to play the butterfly roll. I had some encoding issues so this is about a month and a half overdue. My first upload as a married man!
This is a flam. Since you use both hands, two flams. You do it fast, you get a roll. Flam roll. I still wonder where that "buterfly" came from. Well done for the effort to make the video though. I'm sure people will benefit regardless of my objection regarding the name of it.
Ta ss it is called a butterfly roll because of the fluttering of the hands when played quickly. In this case, I have no desire to apply western naming conventions to a non-western instrument, especially because I don't think it would make it any easier to understand. The end result of this roll should sound like a fast and clean single-stroke roll, with each sound of the "flam" evenly spaced.
DarbukaDave I understand the end result and can actually produce it myself. I also agree regarding the origins of the instrument. Just to be clear, unless you quote for a credible source, the "butterfly roll" is a name you came up with, right? I'm just asking out of curiocity, not trying to start an argument or smt. Cheers
Ta ss I suppose I should have been clearer about it in the video. The name comes from two of my teachers. Interestingly, one is Syrian and the other Macedonian and they both used the same name for it. I can't tell you how far back it goes.
It is also interesting that I had a Syrian and a Turkish teacher and never called it that way. And I am from the Macedonia part of Greece and didn't quite heard that from that side either. Neither seen it in any of the dozens of instructional darbuka dvd material out there. Anyway.
Ta ss The Macedonian guy I learned it from is Rroma. He has lived in NYC forever so maybe he picked up the name from somewhere else. Either way, I certainly didn't make it up.
