Fill Of The Week #5

Here’s fill of the week #5:

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This fill has a lot of interplay between the hands and the bass drum, I hope you’ve been working on your co-ordination. Let’s break this fill down into simple steps.

The first step is to get the Right hand movement correct. The Right hand plays the biggest role in this fill and everything else moves around it. Here’s the Right hand on it’s own:

Step 1 – The Right Hand

If you have worked on Fill Of Week #4, then you’ll notice that the right hand is playing the same pattern as that fill. Now we’re playing the pattern between snare drum and floor tom instead of snare drum and bass drum.

Our next step is to add in the bass drum to get the interplay between the right hand and the bass drum correct.

Right hand and Bass Drum part from fill of the week 5.
Step 2 – Add The Bass Drum

Make sure your snare and bass drum notes are evenly spaced – we don’t want any unintentionally swung notes. Work on it slowly with a metronome.

Finally – add the left hand to create the flams on the snare and play the final floor tom note.

Fill of the week 5 complete
Step 3 – Add the Left Hand

Now you’ve got the fill happening, you can try some simple things to vary it. For example, play your flams across 2 surfaces so they become flat flams instead:

fill of the week variation 1. fat flams between snare and floor tom.
Flat Flams played on snare and floor tom

To rock it up even more, play flat flams between snare and crash:

fill of the week variation 2. flams between snare and crash,
Flat Flams played on snare and crash

Alternatively, play the flams on the snare drum and move the other notes around the kit:

fill of the week variation 3. Tom tom notes moved around.
Tom Tom notes moved around the kit

Of course, you could always try a combination of these things:

fill of the week variation 4. flams between snare and crash, tom tom notes moved around.
Flat Flams on snare and crash, Tom Tom notes moved around the kit.

Have fun with fill of the week #5!

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