Orchestral drum roll?
I'm trying to make a bass drum roll at the beginning of my piece, and I'm not too sure how to do it. I've found a solution online which tells me to use the tremolos, but it makes the bass drum sound more like a machine gun. Not sure how to describe what I'm going for, It's a drum roll on a bass drum with a crescendo hairpin.
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Considering just the notation, you can indicate a roll with either a tremolo (3 strokes, or perhaps 4 in a very slow tempo if there's any danger of ambiguity), or tr~~~, but the tremolo is much more common nowadays.
When I apply a three- (or four-) stroke tremolo it sounds to me like MuseScore interprets this as a roll and uses an appropriate sample. Maybe people more experienced in the playback area can weigh in.
The machine gun sound suggests to me you are using a soundfont instead of the new Msue Sounds. With Msue Sounds, rolls should sound like rolls. If you have a score where that's not happening, please attach it so we can understand and assist better.
In reply to The machine gun sound… by Marc Sabatella
Hey guys, Sorry to bump the thread a year later but I'm having a similar issue with snare rolls, they sound like a machine gun and I know I'm using Muse Sounds, a 4-dashed tremolo and even a 3-dashed one sounds horrible and is often off-rhythm too compared to what's around it. Any workaround for this?
Ben
In reply to Hey guys, Sorry to bump the… by cyphereleven
This shouldn't happen with Muse Sounds... and what do you mean by 'off-rhythm'? Rolls are unmeasured so have a continuous sound; could you elaborate?