Percussion: Snare Rudiments

(At the bottom of this page is the Quarter 3 7th and 8th snare sheets that are in your scale packets)

Rudiments Summary Page

(all 7th and 8th get this laminated)

Flam

(Introduced in 6th Grade)

(7th and 8th grade does Sixteenth Note Exercises with Flams/Accents!)

Multiple Bounces (Introduction to Rolling)

(6th Graders learn this as the first step toward rolling, and 7/8 do rolls like this until we learn more about stroked rolls)

This is notated with a Z across your note.

In the first couple months of snare learning, your book introduces a multiple bounce for the first time with one hand getting a turn at a time (see #21 in the snare side of your Essential Elements Book).

Each hand gets a turn at having multiple bounces as indicated with an L or R.

#21 Example of how a multiple bounce looks like for the first time

When we are ready, we will learn 16th notes with #82 (we will skip ahead in the book a bit)

Multiple Bounce Rolls with Sixteenth Notes

Step 1 to Stroked Rolling

After we are comfortable with 16th notes, we will update our rolls to being correct "closed rolls" or multiple bounce rolls that alternate hands equally in the whole roll. Each quarter note that is rolled now becomes a group of four 16th notes that are multiple bounced, alternating hands. See my poster from our classroom wall:

Try rolls this way with #59. #60, #61 (if you have a tie, this means you end your roll with a "tap" or a release).

We use these multiple bounce alternating hand "buzz rolls" or "closed rolls" for a while until we learn more stick control and can learn "stroked rolls" or "open rolls" in 7th grade.

Paradiddles

(Step 2 to Stroked Rolling)

(These are introduced in 6th grade with #36, but we mostly like to alternate our sticks for a while. We will work on Paradiddles from time to time in lessons to help prepare us for the next step in rolls--stroked rolling.

7th and 8th grade does Paradiddle Accent Exercises!

Paradiddles help us work on controlling our sticking with strpled multiple bounces (but limiting the bounces to 2!)

Drag (or Ruff)

(We start to see things like this in our snare music as 7th-8th graders)

Multiple Bounce Rolls vs Stroked Rolls

As we evolve as percussionists, we learn stick control and start to learn Stroked Rolls

See the difference between them below:

Different Types of Double Stroked Rolls (or "Open Rolls")

(7th and 8th graders work on this 3rd Quarter)

Be sure you try this with both hands, working SLOWLY at first, and gradually speeding up. It is all about stick control.

Don't try to "single stroke" the two same handed hits in a row. Let your stick do the work for you. Treat it like a double bounce (as if you were dragging it or doing a "diddle") but it only is allowed to hit twice per stick.

5 Stroke Roll

(double, double, tap) --the final tap is a "release."

You can also think of it like two 16ths and an 8th, with the 16ths (1 e) being doubles and the 8th (+) being a tap (1e+)

Tutorial on the left, practice track on the right.

(7 stroke would be in between but we don't see these very often)

9 Stroke Roll

(double, double, double, double, tap) --the final tap is a "release."

You can also think of it like four 16ths with a tap, the 16ths being doubles (1e+a) and the tap is a single release (tap)= (1e+a tap)

Tutorial on the Left, Practice Track on the Right

Here are two great 9 stroke roll practice activities:

(he has the music on the screen)

Longer Stroked Rolls

(13, 15, 17 stroke)

You will most likely encounter 17 stroke the most, followed by the 13 stroke (and occasionally a 15)

13 Tutorial on left (with 15 and 17 strokes too) and practice track for 17 on right

When we begin to start 17 stroked rolls (8th grade), watch this video together in lessons to make it less complicated.

Here are two great 17 Stroke Roll Activities

(he has the music on the screen)

How to think about longer stroked rolls:

You don't have enough time to count each stroke, so think about it with sixteenth combinations and doubles/singles.

• 13 stroke-A Dotted Quarter Note roll to a release (See the picture below of what the rhythm would look like: 1 e + a 2 e + with doubles, the last + being single tap release)

• 15 stroke-(See the picture below of what the rhythm would look like: think 1 e+a 2e+a with doubles, the last "a" being single tap release)

• 17 stroke--a half note roll to a release (See the picture below of what the rhythm would look like: think 1 e+a 2e+a 3 with doubles, with 3 being a single tap release)

For Fun Play Alongs: