tied notes

I'm trying to teach myself to read music, but I'm not sure how to handle tied notes. Do I roll for the amount of time the tie indicates?

When rolling, you will roll for the duration of the note and release (tap) on the tied note.

In a regular untied note (without a roll), the value of the tied note(s) are added to the first note. Since the drum is stacatto, you attack the first note and hold (count) the note that it is tied to. In an instrument that sustains sound, such as a trumpet, the first note is attacked and sustained to include the value of the tied note.

Pick up Primary Handbook for Snare Drum by Garwood Whaley. There are tied examples in there. There is also an accompanying CD so you can hear how it should be played.

Jeff

Never mind. LOL Jeff's answer is better.

Take a look at this: Tied and Untied Rolls

I think Jeff is the one who showed me this a while back

Jeff, Monica, Chip...Thank you. I will check the links out when I have more time, gotta go to work....

Here's a lesson on tied notes form the Vic Firth website.

http://www.vicfirth.com/education/features/webrhythms/05.html

Jeff