i play snare but when i get bored and pick up a pair, i love doin penny rolls.

I just started playing cymbals a lot more, and i remember watching my band teacher freshman year during a band concert, and he spun the cymbals against each other.. I dont even know what its called, but he got a sound almost like a suspended cymbal role out of them. Possibly the coolest thing i've seen thus far... then again I live in Vermont and we dont really have marching bands up here...

That's a cymbal roll. You press the edges of the cymbals together, and rotate your wrists, making sure to keep contact at all times on the edges of the cymbals. It's a pretty difficult thing to perfect, but once you do, it's great.

Actually, it's called a Vibrato Roll.

As discussed before, there is not a set list of names for what are done on cymbals.

One person make call a Crash a "Power Crash", and the next may call it a "West-Coast Crash", and the next make call it a "Horizontal Crash" or a "Slide Crash."

I guess that's true. But what if you were doing a two-plate roll? Is that the same as a vibrato roll or just "roll"? I don't know much about this stuff.

Sorry if I came off as a douchebag in my last post. I've had a rough few weeks with Bronchitis (Three days before All-Days, too. Fun, eh?) and it's catching up to me.

A two-plate roll . . . Isn't that the same as a Cymbal Roll or Vibrato Roll? . . . I'm . . . confused. Explain to me what a two-plate roll is?

I'm trying to expand my knowledge of West-Coast AND East-Coast techniques as much as I can. Hence, I'm marching with a Corps that is doing East-Coast, and I march with a Winterline that uses West-Coast.

No problem. Hope you feel better. A two plate roll is when you slide the edges of the cymbals against each other where one cymbal goes around each other. It's very easy to do.

The Vibrato Roll is when you spin the edges of the cymbals. This requires wrist motion and take a bit work to learn.

Since our cymbal line is all girls, we get to sit on the ground while the rest of the drumline walks over us. Gets the judges at competition everytime

Oh, now I understand, Jeff. We (Readers of the Cym. Tech. 101 book/West Coast) call what you call a two-plate roll a "Closed Roll."