Snare drum rolls?

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As the title suggests, yes I am writing a piece that includes a snare drum and I am a bit stumped.

I was looking over a Marimba piece, and it had something along the lines of "Roll notes", above the stave. This I suppose would be that the composer would want all the notes up until said otherwise, to be rolled.

I am in 12/8, and I would love to have crotchet, rolled quaver - Crotchet, rolled quaver - ect, through out the following bars. Should I put tremolo markings on those quavers? Would that be the best way to write it down?

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Yes, as you suggest:

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That's one way of notating it. You can also use the "trill" sign (in the "lines" menu in Sibelius for some reason). Personally I prefer that option,
(a) because it's more familiar to me from when I used to play percussion in my school orchestra (though that's probably just another thing that's gone out of fashion in the half-century since then!)
(b) because I think it looks tidier on the page &/or screen, and
(c) because the wiggly lines you get with trill signs somehow seem to look like the sound of a drum-roll, specially when it's a long drum-roll that extends half-way across the page.

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Awesome, thanks to you both!