To answer your original question, I use lowercase Z in 14pt Geneva. These are is the handle positioning values I use:
(In Spaces) Main Symbol: H: 0.66667 V: -2.5 Flipped Symbol: H: -.0375 V: 1 On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:03 AM, David H. Bailey < [email protected]> wrote: > On 11/22/2013 1:21 AM, Giovanni Andreani wrote: > > Thank you Jef, things are getting clearer. > > I remember studying (and actually assumed) that a half note with the > tremolo symbol was to be interpreted as a double open stroke roll, whereas > the tremolo indicated a single stroke roll; in contrast to these two > notations the Z would indicate the bouncing four strokes. > > How would the two be differentiated in a list of rudiments? > > > > In the list of rudiments that I have the Z indicates a "multiple-bounce > roll" which means that the drummer doesn't pay attention to how many > times the tip bounces with each hand. When I was in school this was > referred to as the "scrambled egg roll" because the drummer just keeps > the sticks moving as if scrambling eggs. > > The tremelo marking indicats a double-stroke open roll, where the tip of > the stick bounces precisely twice with each stick motion, for a much > more controlled sound. > > In practice what either symbol represents to the drummer will vary > greatly depending on the training of the particular drummer playing the > part. So you may get either type of roll with either type of symbol if > the drummer hasn't been trained very well. > > I just put the tremelo marking for all my rolls and leave it to the > drummer to either obey that symbol precisely or do a multiple-bounce roll. > > > -- > David H. Bailey > [email protected] > http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
