3 stroke ruff articulationson on drums other than snares

ive been trying them out on kick drums with some success, do you use them on anything other than snares? anyone have any beats they have done where i could listen to an example of a non-traditional three stroke ruff articulation?

battery 3 has a gang of rolls, flams, 3 stroke ruff, fast rolls ect. that i have been messing around with. anyone made any thing with a non-traditional use of these articulations?

not even sure what you are talking about with 3 stroke ruff.. but i do rolls all the time with all kinds of hits

alright, i checked the 3 stroke on youtube and i dont see why couldnt just experiment and try different combinations.. toms, hats percussion etc.. just pay attention to adsr if you want to tighten up the hits because some hits can sound sloppy if they are used in a combination and are allowed to have the tail play out fully

i think i've done that roll, though i'd never put any attention what stuff like this could be called or any exact type of placement of the hits etc.. i just see it all as rolls and shuffles.. also i only do shorter rolls usually.. not a longer continued pattern like in some of the clips i saw..

but yeah.. i'd just mess about with different typ of hits and try various combos

cool thanks for the reply man, yeah battery 3 has this articulation section that makes it so you can do rolls, and control the speed by tempo, and they have a thing called speed rolls and also 3 stroke ruff like i was talking about, as well as a few others. like release hits, alternate left and right stick hits, mutes, buzzes ect.

but i was just playing around with them and wondered if anyone used them and what for.

im not really a drummers so i only know what some of these actually are for, time to research some articulations i guess.

yeah, well i personally dont think you need to know what anything is called as long as you know how to use it.. and if you dont feel a need to do any indepth explanations to someone, needing to know various terms just to know what the other person is talking about.. but i've never been much into that myself, lol

here's a lil minimal style dnb example that uses various types of hits for rolls.. this is programmed on the mpc though, with some edits done in cubase afterwards.. no idea how battery works really..

those drums were pretty cool. you make good tracks mang.

i was just calling it the terms, because battery lists them as that in there.

you can select a cell (think pad on an mpc), then choose an articulation to apply to it, and those are some of the terms they used.

damien907 wrote: anyone have any beats they have done where i could listen to an example of a non-traditional three stroke ruff articulation?

I don't know what do you mean with "non-traditional", but drum lessons on youtube are your best friends in a case like this.

the very first vid that came up while scearching "3 stroke ruff":

Pete Riley 3 stroke ruff ideas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBosYTfpSn4

I'm not a particullary good drummer, so when I find something too complex for me to actually play on the MPC, I usually sample to whole articulation and then try to fit it in a rhythm.
you could begin by experimenting like that, sampling the various ideas you can find in the video I linked, and then, once you understand how they can influence a rhythm you are creating, you can try to actually play them by yourself.

^^^ yeah thats a good idea, i should do it more often. i have done it sometimes and have found it to work really well sometimes and other times not so well.

ill check that video for sure though