Category: Fill Of The Week

It’s fill of the week time, let’s get to it. This week’s fill is another 5 note grouping fill. Once you find something you like with drums, it’s always good to explore how many ways you can play it. This helps to increase your drum kit vocabulary a lot. Our last 5 note grouping fill…

It’s time for fill of the week #25. Let’s hit it. This fill features flams, bass drums and one of my favourite stickings – RLLRLLRL. Often when I use the RLLRLLRL sticking in a 16th note fill, I put it at the start or end of fill – RLLRLLRLRLRLRLRL or RLRLRLRLRLLRLLRL. This week I decided…

Let’s get, let’s get, let’s get, let’s get filling with fill of the week #24. Fill of the week #24 is what I call a starting the old car fill; The first half of the fill sounds like you’re try to get the car started, and then finally at the end of the fill you…

It’s time to smack that stack with fill of the week #23. Let’s get to stack smackin’. Did you spot the 5 note grouping at work during fill of the week #23? We last saw 5 note groupings in fill of the week #14 when we were going over the bar line with them. This…

SEVEN-FIVE-SIX – those are the magic numbers you need play fill of the week #22. Let’s see those numbers in action. Fill of the week #22 starts with a group of seven 16th notes then cuts a couple of notes off to make a group of five 16th notes and then repeats the first six…

Here’s fill of the week #21: Wow! That was a lot of notes! I counted 24 in total, and some of them were pretty fast! This is an advanced fill featuring 16th notes, 32nd notes and 32nd note triplets. Lets break it down and have a go at learning it. Learn The Fill Let’s start…

Here’s the flam-tastic fill of the week. Who doesn’t love a good flam? This fill has four flams to satisfy all of your flam cravings. Let’s flam away. Learn The Fill This is a fairly simple fill, but lets build it up slowly. The place to start is with the basic hand pattern: Now let’s…

Here’s fill of the week #19, be warned we’re going where no fill has gone before… over TWO bar lines! Fill of the week #19 is a 7-note grouping played over 16th notes. This is a good way to get used to playing 7-note groupings before you try applying them to 16th note triplet or…

You might need a doctor after fill of the week #18. This drum fill is going to herta a lot! Fill of the week #18 uses a rudiment known as the Herta which we met back in fill of the week #11. In fill of the week #11 we were using the herta in 16th…

Fish anyone? It’s time for a couple of buckets of fish. Fill of the week 17th features a 16th note triplet lick often known as “Bucket Of Fish.” The 16th note triplet rhythm between the snare, toms & bass drum is often referred to as “bucket of fish” because that’s how it sounds. Let’s go…