Rolls, Rolls, Rolls

Rothman, Joel

General Info

Year: 1967
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Rothman
Cost: Book Cost - $0.00   |   Supplemental Books - $0.00

Reviews

Student Reviews

This book is almost exclusively used to learn and practice efficient roll technique. There is a preface to this book where Joel Rothman expresses his goal of writing this book to have a final goal of the student to efficiently play in 4/4, 6/8, and cut time. He then explains that there are two ideas presented when playing rolls, the closed and open, he then describes briefly how to approach them. This book is excellent in the idea that one measure will contain a series of 16th notes, and then the following measure will reflect it, but with rolls. Before each new section where a new roll idea is introduced, there is a short explanation of the notation and how to read it as a roll. There are two downfalls to this book, the first is that while the author explains in the preface that the metronome markings are approximate to achieve successful closed rolls, several (if not all) are too fast, they are good 'final goals' to achieve but overall, the metronome markings are too fast. There are also no dynamics (while an advanced player might incorporate his own dynamic markings for practice, a student may not make that connection) the author provides that this book is most effective when used in conjunction with Musical Studies for the Intermediate Snare Drummer and Intermediate Duets for Snare Drum. -Trevor Landreth; Emporia State University

Works for Percussion by this Author

Rothman, Joel. A Quartet of Recipes Around the Drums. Joel Rothman Pub., 1976.
Rothman, Joel. Artificial Technique. Joel Rothman Pub., 1976.
Rothman, Joel. Basic Drumming Joel Rothman Pub., 1983.
Rothman, Joel. Basic Rock Beats. Joel Rothman Pub., 1971.
Rothman, Joel. Coordinated Rock Breaks Phrased in Three. Joel Rothman Pub., 1973.
Rothman, Joel. Coordination Patterns with a Dotted 1/8 Note Cymbal Beat. Joel Rothman Pub., 1974.
Rothman, Joel. Coordination Patterns with Eighth-Note Triplets. Joel Rothman Pub., 1970.
Rothman, Joel. Coordination Patterns with Hi-hat and Bass Drum. Joel Rothman Pub., 1972.
Rothman, Joel. Coordination Patterns with Sixteenth-Notes. Joel Rothman Pub., 1970.
Rothman, Joel. Dynamic Control. Joel Rothman Pub., 1976.
Rothman, Joel. Fun with Triplets!!!. Joel Rothman Pub., 1968.
Rothman, Joel. Hand-Foot Solo Patterns. Joel Rothman Pub., 1976.
Rothman, Joel. Independent Thinking. Joel Rothman Pub., 1966.
Rothman, Joel. NaJazz Around the Drumsme. Joel Rothman Pub., 1976.
Rothman, Joel. Jazz Coordinated Drum Breaks. Joel Rothman Pub., 19--.
Rothman, Joel. Just Another Rock Book. Joel Rothman Pub., 1972.
Rothman, Joel. Left Hand Control. Joel Rothman Pub., 1972.
Rothman, Joel. Left Hand Rock Breaks. Joel Rothman Pub., 1972.
Rothman, Joel. Let's Warm-Up. Joel Rothman Pub., 1964.
Rothman, Joel. Mixing Meters. Joel Rothman Pub., 1964.
Rothman, Joel. New Testament of Technique. Joel Rothman Pub., 1969.
Rothman, Joel. Paradiddle Rock. Joel Rothman Pub., 1984.
Rothman, Joel. Phrasing Rock Breaks. Joel Rothman Pub., 1972.
Rothman, Joel. Pure Co-ordination for all Musicians. Joel Rothman Pub., 1967.
Rothman, Joel. Reading and Rolling in Cut Time. Joel Rothman Pub., 1973.
Rothman, Joel. Reading Can Be Odd. Joel Rothman Pub., 1963.
Rothman, Joel. Recipes with Doubles Around the Drums. Joel Rothman Pub., 1974.
Rothman, Joel. Recipes with Singles Around the Drums. Joel Rothman Pub., 1974.
Rothman, Joel. Rhythmic Technique. Joel Rothman Pub., 1973.
Rothman, Joel. Rock Breaks with Thirty-Second Notes. Joel Rothman Pub., 1972.
Rothman, Joel. Rock Drum Solos. Joel Rothman Pub., 1984.
Rothman, Joel. Rock 'n Rolls. Joel Rothman Pub., 1974.
Rothman, Joel. Rock Reader. Joel Rothman Pub., 1970.
Rothman, Joel. Rockbreaks in a Nutshell. Joel Rothman Pub., 1976.
Rothman, Joel. Roll Etudes. Joel Rothman Pub., 2015.
Rothman, Joel. Rolls, Rolls, Rolls. Joel Rothman Pub., 1967.
Rothman, Joel. Rudiments Revisited. Joel Rothman Pub., 1973.
Rothman, Joel. Son of Independent Thinking. Joel Rothman Pub., 1974.
Rothman, Joel. Soul on Bass. Joel Rothman Pub., 1970.
Rothman, Joel. Take A Break. Joel Rothman Pub., 1972.
Rothman, Joel. The Rock and Roll Bible of Co-ordination. Joel Rothman Pub., 1968.
Rothman, Joel. Triplet Control. Joel Rothman Pub., 1969.
Rothman, Joel. Two-Measure Jazz Drum Solos Phrased in Three. Joel Rothman Pub., 1974.