broken diddle rolls: 9 stroke

Eric Winter, a former student of mine and dear friend, reached out with a question about breaking the diddles of a roll. This is commonly used as a way to place the agogic accent on the second pulse of the diddle. This is a cool way to work on smoothing out your double stroke roll and also to work on that Moeller whip for your Stubblefield/Starks grooves and your shuffles. Dig this excerpt from Wilcoxen’s Accents and Rebounds:

Here, however, Eric was asking about it from the perspective of a fill that he was playing and that he was trying to clean up. So, what started as a series of texts with lots of rrllrrllr and rllrrllrr opened up some ideas and applications that had been stirring in my head for awhile. Nothing earth shattering here. But there are some interesting possibilities and orchestration opportunities on kit or tumbadoras or timbal. Check out the quick sheet that I scrawled out and the quick and dirty video where I demo the stickings for Eric. Note that this could be used as an abanico idea for timbal as just one possible application.