Category: Fill Of The Week

Mmm num ba deDum bum ba beDoo buh dum ba beh behUnder Pressure This week’s drum fill is based on the main drum riff from the bridge section of the Queen / David Bowie song Under Pressure. This section of the song is a great example of how you can take one idea and produce…

Beats two and three are lava! Here’s a fill which appears relatively simple, but it’s the notes that are missing that make it tricky; We’re not playing on beats 2 or 3. We’ve done similar things on fill of the week #9, you might want to check that one 0ut too. Learn The Fill Let’s…

I feel the need, the need for speed. This week’s drum fill flies by at 12obpm, which doesn’t sound all that fast, but because we’re playing 16th note triplets, it just zooms by. If you like 16th note triplet drum fills, check out fill of the week #38 for more 16th note triplet ideas. Learn…

It’s paradiddle time! This week’s drum fill features the paradiddle – three of them to be precise. The last time we played with the paradiddle was on Fill Of The Week #39 when we played paradiddles around the kit with a right hand lead. This time, we’re leading with the left hand and using singles…

Here’s some fun with fives: This week’s fill sees us taking a 5 note grouping and spreading it across 16th notes and 16th note triplets to make a 19 note fill. This might not be something you incorporate into every song you play, but it’s a good mental workout. We’ve done work with fives before,…

Help Help Help! I’ve displaced my paradiddle-diddles! Displaced paradiddle-diddles. Yep. That’s a thing! For this drum fill we’re using a displaced paradiddle-diddle sticking. Instead of starting the paradiddle-diddle with 2 single strokes – the “para” – we’re starting it with the double strokes on the last diddle; The paradiddle-diddle is now a diddle-paradiddle. Some may…

Give your drum fills a kick with some 16th note triplets. This week’s drum fill is a simple 16th note fill played between the hands and feet but on beat 3 we have a sixteenth note triplet twist. We did something similar on Fill Of The Week #13 with beat 4. Check that one out…

What I’m about to tell you is highly classified: The cheat code for awesome drum fills is… uggh… I’ve been shot… This week’s drum fill revisits a sticking pattern that we’ve used on more than one occasion: RLL. There are tons of uses for this simple sticking pattern. We most recently used it on fill…

Stop dragging around, start practicing this fill. This week’s fill uses drags to augment what is a fairly basic fill. Drags are a great way to enliven a fill and make them sound busier than they are. You can also open up the drags so they sound like 16th note triplets or 32nd notes. Figure…

Don’t blink, you’ll miss this week’s drum fill! This week’s drum fill is a fast one. It’s at 90bpm, which isn’t the fastest tempo, but it’s using 32nd notes. We’re using flurries of 3 notes to create this fast and furious drum fill. We’ve done similar 32nd note drum fills before, check out fill of…