Category: Fill Of The Week

Here’s fill of the week #16: Not a 16th note or an 8th note in sight on this fill, it’s all triplets; 16th note triplets for excitement and 8th note triplets for drama. Let’s get to work on our triplets. Learn The Fill This is a fairly simple fill in terms of co-ordination, but the…

It’s Fill Of The Week Time, let’s check out fill of the week #15: What? No Tom-Toms? No-Flams? No Crashes? Just Bass, Snare and Hi-Hats? Is this really fill of the week? Yes, it is. Fill of the week #15 is what is known as a Groove Fill. Just a simple variation on the groove…

Warning! This fill goes OVER THE BAR LINE and should only be used in extreme situations! Let’s check it out. This fill uses a 5 note grouping that’s played 4 times over 16th notes. That gives a grand total of twenty 16th notes, therefore it’s never going to fit in a bar of 16th notes…

It’s time for fill of the week. Here’s lucky number 13: This fill was inspired by the drum fill intro to “You Could Be Mine” by Guns n’ Roses. The fills use the same first 6 notes, but the GnR fill is over 2 bars, I had to cram mine into 1 bar. I also…

Here’s Fill Of The Week #12: That’s a funky fill! There’s a lot going on. Lets get to it! Learn The Fill The first step to learning this fill is to get comfortable with the 16th note hi-hat barks. We’ll start by getting the arm movement correct between the snare and closed hi-hat. Next we’ll…

It’s time for fill of the week. Lets get to it: So we’re in eighth note triplet mode again, but we’re spicing things up by using a popular hybrid rudiment – the Herta. Let’s learn the fill. Learn The Fill The first step to learning this fill is playing 8th note triplets using a R…

It’s fill of the week time. Here’s number 10: This is a simple accented 16th note fill that shows how accents can bring life to anything you play. Let’s learn it. Learn The Fill There is not a great deal to this fill. It’s 16th notes played on the snare drum and we’re accenting some…

Here’s fill of the week #9 This is one of the those fills that sounds easy but needs careful practice to play precisely. There is a fill similar to this on Extreme’s Get The Funk Out. During the song it’s played while a horn section plays the same rhythm and it sounds huge. Let’s get…

Here’s a simple polyrhythmic triplet fill you can use next time you’re playing a shuffle or another 8th note triplet groove. This fill uses groups of 4 over the triplet subdivision to give a polyrhythmic feel. It’s not quite as simple as it seems. Let’s break it down. Learn The Fill Our first step is…

It’s fill of the week time. Here’s number 7: This is another fill that uses the 6-6-4 phrasing; check out Fill Of The Week #6 if you’re not sure what that is. Let’s break this fill down. Learn The Fill Our first step in learning this fill is to get the Right hand part correct.…