Category: Fill Of The Week

It’s time to get groovy with fill of the week #36. Fill of the week is what I consider to be a groove fill. It mostly keeps the flow of the 8th note hi-hat going and focuses on the snare and bass drum & sounds like a variation on the groove. Let’s check it out!…

Here’s fill of the week #35: Fill of the week #35 was inspired by groove of the week #35. It features the same rhythm. After recording and writing about groove of the week #35, I noticed that the groove was essentially two blocks of seven 16th notes; One block started on beat 1, the second…

Get a brimful of this drum fill on your way to the corner shop. This drum fill is taken from the song Brimful Of Asha by Cornershop. The drum fill happens at around 3’33” and serves as a pickup to restart the song after a brief pause. Let’s learn it. Learn The Fill This is…

Here’s fill of the week #33, don’t trip-let over it! Our friend the five note grouping makes it’s return for fill of the week #33. Last time we saw the five note grouping it was on fill of the week #28 where we used it in 16th note triplet form. This time we’re using it…

It’s time to ring the bell on this week’s fill. Ding Ding Ding, Let’s Go! I thought it would be fun to try and incorporate the bell of the ride cymbal into a fill and, using a RRL sticking, this is what I arrived at. Learn The Fill Let’s look at the sticking pattern for…

Here’s a fill from the great Ginger Baker. This fill is Ginger Baker’s fill from the Cream song “White Room.” He uses variations of this fill throughout the verses of the song. When I first learnt this song I was in a rush, I had over 100 songs to learn in a short space of…

It’s time for fill of the week #30. I hope you practiced our Fill Of The Week #5 because this fill is a slightly evolved version of that one. Let’s get to learning. Learn The Fill The basis of this fill is alternating singles between the right hand and the bass drum. Let’s look at…

Eating fish regularly is good for your health. Playing buckets of fish on your drums is good for your drumming health. Here’s a another fill featuring the classic “bucket of fish” lick. We last saw the “Bucket of fish” lick in Fill Of The Week #17. I call this fill “The loud bucket of fish”…

I call this fill “How to lose a band in 24 notes or less.” This is a fun fill to play but certainly isn’t applicable to every musical situation – use with extreme caution. We’ve done a few fills featuring 5 note groups before, the most recent one being fill of the week #26. Those…

It’s fill of the week time, let’s get diddlin’. This fill of the week uses one of my favourite rudiments: the Paradiddle-diddle. Applying rudiments around the kit can help you to create things that you can’t play with just single strokes or to play your ideas in an easier, more relaxed manner. Let’s check out…