[SprintBob]

I’ve been working on three note and four note rolls in Mark Hanson’s Art of Solo Fingerpicking course. He defines a roll as being a “quick arpeggio” played over the course of one beat. If the duration of a beat is a 1/4 note, than a 3 note roll is a triplet and a four note roll is constructed of a “quick” arpeggio playing four 1/16th notes in succession. That makes sense in the music notation and makes it easy to count out the roll in the music to get the timing down.

I have not listened to the Silent Night version the OP refers to but I looked at the tab/notation he linked and it is totally different than how Hanson notates a roll in his material (if the “R” is meant to denote a roll). What is also curious to me is that many of the notes where this occurs are dotted and some are notated as half notes. Ring would seem to make more sense when you look at the notation.