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What (who) is drum roll - definition

PERCUSSION TECHNIQUE

Drum Roll; Drumroll; Freehand technique; Freehand Technique; Drum strokes; Drum rolls; Wirbel; Snare roll; Closed roll; Bass drum roll; Long roll

drum roll

also drumroll (drum rolls)

A drum roll is a series of drumbeats that follow each other so quickly that they make a continuous sound. A drum roll is often used to show that someone important is arriving, or to introduce someone.

A long drum roll introduced the trapeze artists.

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Drum roll

A drum roll (or roll for short) is a technique used by percussionists to produce a sustained sound for the duration of a written note.Cirone, Anthony J.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_roll

drum roll

¦ noun a rapid succession of drumbeats, typically used to introduce an announcement or event.

Wikipedia

Drum roll

A drum roll (or roll for short) is a technique used by percussionists to produce a sustained sound for the duration of a written note.

All drum figures are based upon three fundamental beats, technically called roll, single stroke, and flam...Sustentation is accomplished upon wind instruments by blowing into the instrument; it is accomplished upon the violin and the allied instruments by drawing the bow across the string; it is accomplished upon the drum and allied percussion instruments by the roll.
THE SNARE DRUM ROLL.
The roll consists of an even reiteration of beats sufficiently rapid to prohibit rhythmic analysis. To produce an impression of sustentation, these beats must be absolutely even both in power and in sequence. Uneven beats in a roll destroy the impression of sustentation. Evenness is then the primary quality to strive for in roll; speed is the secondary quality to strive for.
There are two possible ways of producing an absolutely even sequence: (1) hand alternation of single stroke and (2) hand alternation of double strokes...The snare drum roll is produced by hand alternation of double strokes.
The "open roll" is produced by [initially] slow hand alternation. Two strokes in each hand alternately are produced by wrist movement and each beat should follow its predecessor in clock-like precision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum roll

Examples of use of drum roll

1. Sometimes it has the cadence of a drum roll, other times the fury of fireworks.

2. The sirens, the motorbikes and the police escort, the drum roll welcoming the Sudans esteemed guests, courtesy of the hospitality of the Government of the Sudan.

3. There is simply no entertainment like circus the brilliant colours, the familiar drum roll, the pungent, intoxicating smell of the sawdust.

4. A drum roll marked the ceremonial entrance of Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld to a grassy field outside the Pentagon.

5. By the time he announces his Iraq plan in January, roughly two months will have passed since a humbling election for Republicans brought a promise of a "new way forward." There might as well be a drum roll.