DOWNLOAD FREE PDFs and PLAY ALONGS FOR DRUM SET HERE: Quincydavisjazz.com LESSON TIME STAMPS 00:00 - Lesson Intro 00:26 - Are you ready!? 00:37 - Playing Intro 01:09 - Drum Roll Component #1 04:01 - Drum Roll Component #2 07:52 - Drum Roll Component #3 10:04 - Lesson Summary
You just taught RU-vid how to play a 3-DIMENSIONAL drum roll!! AWESOME lesson. Very concise, very clear, very efficient! I've been doing this by feel for years, but never figured out how to break it down and describe it. You're such an important resource for today's drumming students!
Best drum roll educator I’ve seen anywhere! As you break down the concepts, a beginner will be able to quickly identify where they are having trouble doing a smooth roll and then find the solutions needed to correct those issues.
Man, this is quite a lesson. I've been using Accents & Rebounds for a year and a half. I had to go as low as 35 bpm to find some control in the beginning. I have it up to speed. But I knew something was missing. Thanks for these components Q. Really love this classical side of drumming. Firmness/Looseness, Rate, Dynamics Holding it down as always.
Great lesson! Wonder if you could do a part 2 that shows how to do a good press roll while swinging, like Art Blakey in the song "Blues March" ? Thanks
Thanks for explaining so clearly. As a drummer starting in my adulthood, these types of techniques often feel unnatural and logical explanations such as these (rare to find imo!) are very helpful. Now hopefully it’ll help me play Yes’s Siberian Khatru roll part 🙏🙏🙏
That was amazing. Thank you so much. You broke everything down and made it clear. I've never seen a drum roll explained in such detail. I shall be practicing all those components. Thanks, again.
Aw, man! Ive been looking for someone to teach me to play this and there you are! You said it, you played it and demo’d it and I get it! Thank you!❤ you have a new subscriber!
Very much appreciated. It has been very well exposed. I had worked for a long time in my roll and I had improved very slowly and haven’t achieved something worthy of the name. I’m going to work throroughly with the technique you have explained and broke out so clearly. Many thanks.
Fantastic lesson by a phenomenal drummer. I thought I had a great roll. In actuality, I have a good roll that will improve thanks to your incredible lesson. Blessings to Quincy.
Good lesson. You really "drumb it down" for me. I haven't got a good roll in the last 50 years, but maybe now there's hope? Thanks, I'll watch this another 35 times.
Fabulous lesson. Love how you broke the roll down. Great job explaining and demonstrating. Plus, your manner and personality are so friendly and encouraging. I love your videos.
So I have what I consider a few different rolls Buzz roll. Aggressive stroke rolls that are counted. Like a nine stroke roll. Then accented rolls. I’m self taught and copy what I hear in music. I try to stay loose but when doing certain songs and trying to copy certain artists I can get more aggressive. I guess it’s what you call a press.
AHA!!!!😉 Crescendo & Decrescendo perfect lesson Quincy many thanks😊I find my pressed roll is way better with traditional grip which I have been learning for a couple of years now than matched which I have used all my drumming life....Still working on the pressed roll as it's one of my favourites and inspired by all the jazz drumming greats 🥁
What never is mentioned: One never manages to play an equal roll on a not properly tuned snare drum. When the batter head is not evenly tensioned, your roll will limp. Higher tension helps but it must be even. The reso head is also important, but not as much. Same is for the snare tension although lower tension here covers small inconsistencies. That all has additionly to be adjusted to the sticks you use and the way you grab them. When you think „my roll sucks, that‘s my fate“, try to optimize head tension. You‘ll be amazed about your hidden drum roll skills.
Reallly good, I played this roll to a teacher when I was around 18 and he told me it was cheating, so I stayed away from it, I am now 64 and played it again and it sounds good to me, Have you posted a video where you incorporate toms too?
Really interesting lesson!😊 Quincy I have a question for you: about the third component, how do you mentally determine the TIME SIGNATURE AS YOU PLAY a crescendo to then arrive (whit precision) on one of the measure? Is it simply a matter of practice and practice and practice, or can you advise me on the best way (technically, theoretically) to achieve this? Thanks Quincy, I love your tips!!! ❤️🥁
Awesome question ‘Man! I regret not going into more depth on that one and providing 1 or 2 exercises. Practice playing rolls at different tempos and different dynamics. Over time you will start making automatic adjustments to components 1 & 2 to achieve the best sounding roll. Same thing goes for crescendos and decrescendos. Have fun!
Great video!! Oddly, I play more traditional grip than match grip, but when I want to play a quiet roll, I just tend to switch to match grip. No idea when or why I started doing this, but it's what I tend to do. Thanks again!!
Hey Quincy, I heard one of the most important keys to success is setting clear goals. I just realized I have no idea what my goals are for jazz drums: comping? Solos? More grooves? Question: How do I set goals as a drummer? What are good goals for beginners, intermediate, and advanced (even pro) drummers?
Really great breakdown Q! I only ever paid attention to the rate and tempo. So at a slower tempo I would go from say 16ths to 16th note triplets so that I didn't have to adjust the looseness of my grip very much. Also I was taught to play press rolls nearer the outside of the drum. Do you think that has an impact on the sound quality and difficulty playing the roll? Thanks for all the detail... off to the practice room 😎
We start with one drum, we learn the roll and we spend our whole life searching for perfect seamless rolls, so we can roll in rhythm,and swing with the roll as the backbone for the ride tempo.As with 40s big band solos, the solo story was told initially by the snare then moved onto the toms and bd.Quincy could show us how you integrate rolls into your musicality and the dynamic builds with rim shots etc. from your be-bop roots encylopedia of ideas , you are serving our drum community through exellence...Bra vo.
Hey I'm not a drummer but your help allowed me to roll three times in quiet church before taps on the organs trumpets for memorial day thanks for the know how
Great lesson. Wish my Gen z and younger students had the patience for your videos. You really have all the info in there, but they can’t make it past the long intros. (Which I personally enjoy)
Hey Quincy. I really enjoyed this video, I think it’ll help me get my rolls to the next level. Do you think you could do a video on how to get better flam taps? I’ve been finding that my right hand is good but my left hand can’t keep up
Whatever happened to teaching students what double strokes are? Let's teach them the proper way to play a roll, rather than a lazy, half assed method !!!
Valid point Richard. I was very close to doing a lesson about double strokes, triple bounce THEN a multi bounce but the lesson would have gotten too long and unfocused. I will definitely be doing a lesson double stroke rolls in the future. Thnx
@@drumqtips Thank you Quincy !! I greatly appreciate your lessons, I just want keep the traditional drum methods alive, & kicking. I really meant no disrespect Sir !!
Hello q , do you use this kind of roll for soloing with roll (between accented noté on tom or other) , or do you use fast doble Stoke (with thf help of fingers to accentuate the second note so its even). And in this technique you describe , there is no uses of fingers at all ? Thanks
Great lesson Q, never heard anyone assimilate the rate with the pressure before - bit of a light bulb moment for me! Agree with the below comments on context, I struggle to play in and out of these rolls in a groove setting, would be good to cover that. Also can you do the same type of lesson on single strokes please? Mine are garbage at the moment
Excellent, Q! and also important (and cool) to be able to include rolls within fills that include other non roll rudiments. Have you done a video on incorporating rolls into fills? If not, might be cool to follow this video up with that. I love doing that from time to time in my own playing. I love your playing AND your videos. Always very clear, (humorous) and inspiring. THANKS!
Something occurred to me while watching this lesson. The press roll, or what I usually call a buzz roll, is something that we worked a lot on in college for classical percussion training. Almost every drum set teacher I've ever had concentrated more on double stroke rolls. Maybe because my buzz was better than my double I don't know. But I found it interesting to note that what we learn in one genre can translate so nicely to another. You could have dubbed this lesson "The Rolls Royce of Pressed Rolls" FP
Quincy...been a big fan of your videos for a long time. 1st time commenting on one. This was exceptional: no-nonsense, concise, easy to grasp. I'm more of a symphonic/musical theater drummer (even though I love to play drums in a piano trio setting), so rolls are a HUGE part of my vocabulary. You hit it out of the park with the breakdown of the 3 components. Might I be so bold as to add one more component that needs to be addressed in order to have a world-class roll, and not many people discuss it: buzz consistency. That is each buzz on each hand MUST be an exact duplicate of each other in terms of length, number of buzzes per stroke, and volume. You might want to consider this as "Component 0", since it has to be applied to each of the other 3 components individually as well as combined. Here are a couple of exercises that hopefully everyone will find useful. The first one is covered in one form or another in a number of books. Just simple 1/4 note buzzes. i.postimg.cc/7ZTjybr5/Buzz-Rolls-1.png The next one is for the more adventurous/accomplished. This I got from Buster Bailey who was the snare drummer with the NY Philharmonic (sorry...didn't mean to name-drop, just wanted to give credit where credit is due). i.postimg.cc/k53zM97f/Buzz-Rolls-2.png I included notes in both exercises that might keep things clear. ...And...speaking of Buster...here he is playing a ridiculous decrescendo-crescendo roll (audio only): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z-pMmSe7JpI.html Here is a video of him putting into practice all 4 components. Notice the change of hand speed/number of buzzes as he crescendos (Buster is the rotund, follicley-challenged player): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LmaR0h6-giE.html Again, Quincy thank you so much for this fine tutorial.
Quincy, I began playing the buzz roll where the sticks were approaching the snare drum from a wider circumference almost from the 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock positions and then coming inside so that the sticks were closer together, side by side. The rates and stuff are all exactly as you teach here... the only thing that changes is the first touch. Papa Jo and many others used that technique often. Thanks again, this is an awesome lesson!
