Good song/difficulty to practice rolls on?

**Kataris** · Joined: 01 Sep 2006 Posts: 335 Location: Vegas

Like the topic says, what's a good song/difficulty to practice rolls on?

I'm decent at them, but I can never seem to get them all.

I'm fairly certain it's not my drum set, though.
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**Killoff** · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:00 am Post subject:

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Two of them on hard.

**m4tth4x** · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 203 Location: Ann Arbor, MI

You could try taking TKaR (Aerosmith song) into practice and playing that one really long and fast roll over and over. Then you could adjust the speed that you want to roll at and build it up over time.
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**kleners** · Joined: 01 Dec 2007 Posts: 5

for roll practice..

tribes Outside..... hard or expert in practice mode. this is what i have been training on.

**freebones** · Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 100

theres a really good song called practice mode thats how i did it

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**DYRE** · Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 719

You could also try Run to the Hills on Expert.

In practice mode, of course.

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**rude95841** · Joined: 18 Aug 2006 Posts: 1034 Location: chico ca

29 fingers has a couple on expert and hard

**rhythmjunkie** · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject:

*EDIT* So I was wrong before-- the song I was thinking about was the Molly Hatchet song(Expert). They have this steady left-right rhythm on the red drum, and then every so often there are these 3 quick little notes. I don't know if the technique called for is rolling but its good to practice. Check it out

**Powder** · Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 19 Location: Connecticut

In terms of rolls being too fast for you, there's an easy technique to make yourself (seem) faster, unless you're Mike Mangini, in which case you shouldn't be asking US for help.

Try letting your sticks bounce during rolls. You can practice this on the pads without the game being on, but in essence, you want a loose enough grip on your sticks such that they bounce up a little every time you strike the pad. If they bounce up, you don't need to pull up yourself, so all your roll movement comes out of the wrist, which is how you can (eventually) play 32nd notes and so forth.

**evilgoat** · Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 722 Location: Toms River, NJ

Also the intro to the intro of Cherub Rock. I personally love the drum solo on NIB. It's short and sweet. Very sweet.
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