Roll types - They connect motives and add a sustained depth of activity to a phrase. When an open roll is played with a triplet subdivision the sound is more relaxed in character because the density of the sustain changes. The multiple bounce roll can be smooth or tense depending on fulcrum pressure and speed. Combination of rhythmic and melodic support. Transitions, fills, soli sections.
Whole notes privoide the most flexibility and liberty.
James Campbell is a highly respected performer and clinician in the development of the contemporary percussion ensemble. Having toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Japan and Singapore, he has received wide recongnition as a performer, teacher, arranger and adjudicator. Currently Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, the also holds the position of Principal Percussionist with the Lexington Philharmonic. Jim received both his B.M. in Music Education and M.M. in Percussion Pedagogy and Performance from Northern Illinois University where he studied with G. Allan O'Connor and the famed Blackearth Percussion Group. He also was a student of late James Lane of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.