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Category: Applied Rudiment Fills
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All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Applied Rudiment Grooves, FREE, INTERMEDIATE GROOVES, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused Grooves, Two Handed HiHat Grooves6-Stroke HiHat Bark
I used to love trying to add fancy licks and phrases in subtle ways to my drumming. This is one of those phrases!
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3D Non-Linear Fills, All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Crash Cymbal Groove Placements, Crash Fills, FREE, INTERMEDIATE FILLSIntermediate Crash Fill
Add in some fancy inverted-paradiddle crash stabs without interrupting the groove!
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3D Non-Linear Fills, ADVANCED FILLS, All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Crash Fills, FREE, Shuffle Fills, Stylistic FillsAngry Jazz Combo Fill
Six Strokes and RLL in an aggressive sextuplet fill.
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RLRLLK Combo Fill
I’ve been using this Sticking more and more lately, that last kick sounds great!
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Beginner Disco Fill
Flam Kick Flam… Simple, but it makes you want to DANCE!
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Lotsa Lines = Lotsa Speed
Double Strokes in 32nd Notes… Basically it sounds fast!
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All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Applied Rudiment Grooves, FREE, INTERMEDIATE FILLS, INTERMEDIATE GROOVES, Rhythmic FillsSubtle Herta HiHat Lick
When you just need a little bit of spice in your music.
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How To Play a Fast Sweeping Linear Fill
Walking down the drums and landing with a Flam.
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A Great Fill for Learning 6-Stroke Rolls
A simple orchestration to help you see the benefits of 6-stroke rolls.
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How to Groove with the Snare Drum
Some tips on creating single stroke accent grooves
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Single Kick Linear Fill with a Flam
One big problem with these fast linear fills, is how to end them. The Flam often comes to the rescue!
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Cool 332 Rock Fill
Flams around the kit, this fill sounds BIG!
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Rhythmic Flam Kick Lick
Simple notes to play, but takes nailing the rhythm to make this sing!
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Unison Kicked Paradiddle-diddle
A very dense and fast groove and fill variation where the right foot follows the right hand in a paradiddle-diddle.
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How to do an Open Handed Floor Kick thing I do
Here are some exercises on developing this kind of improvisation.
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These Three Notes Can Sound Killer!
Just a simple movement of RLL can work really well!
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Try This Flam Bucket Of Fish Drum Fill
A Travis Barker favourite, Mixing the Flam with this RLRK Roll down the drums can create some intense sounding fill combos!
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3D Non-Linear Fills, All Content, Applied Rudiment Fills, Applied Rudiment Grooves, Crash Fills, FREE, Ghost Note GroovesSuper Crash Double Inverter
Four Notes which make an impact. Inverted Doubles between Kick and Snare, with the drive towards the crash. Very cool lick to add to your tool box.
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Focus Audience Attention with 6-Stroke Hi-Hats
Drop everything away leaving only a lightning fast 6-stroke Hi-Hat pattern, with a link that focuses your audience onto whatever you do next.
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Big Fat 332 Flam
Here’s a classic Rock Fill and a track to practice it with.
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5551 Grouping Loop
Learn a cool Grouping Fill and apply it with some music.
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Basic Single Stroke Tom Application
Work on a simple single stroke fill, with a focus on getting the left hand out of its comfort zone.
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Applied Rudiment Fills, Applied Rudiment Grooves, FREE, Ghost Note Grooves, Shuffle Fills, Shuffle GroovesHalf Time Shuffle Paradiddle-diddle
Here’s a Jeff Porcaro (Toto) style groove, with a paradiddlediddle variation added to challenge you to transition between these two phrases.
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Classic Flam Kick Fill
Flams and Kicks both provide power, and this is a great 332 grouping to give your fills a boost!
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Crash and Flam Sandwich
Adding Multiple Crashes and Kicks into your Fills, with some density that you can only get by using Flams!
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Linear Sextuplet Paradiddle Combo
A high efficiency combo exercise to practice, with the inclusion of a RLK phrase which goes directly into a paradiddle to finish off this cool sounding groove.
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Basic Flam Fills
Flams make things sound BIG, but as they take two hands to pull off they can also sound slow, unless you work your kick in there…
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332 Dynamic Groupings
332 is a very common rhythm in all music. Here is a sticking which incorporates this in dynamic ways.
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5-Stroke Resolution
Rhythmically, a 5-stroke roll is equal to three 8th notes, which means fitting it into 4/4 takes some kind of resolution. Here is one.
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Simple Herta Fill
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3-5-Paradiddle
Learn a great fill that mixes Odd Groupings with Paradiddles!
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Resolving Paradidle-Diddle Fill
I find drummers avoid the Paradiddle-diddle, just because 6 can be awkward to fit into a 4/4 fill, but only awkward until you have a plan on how to resolve it.
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Paradiddle-Diddle Fills
I love the speed that is possible with Paradiddle-diddles, and the rhythmic character of it just sounds great!
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7-Stroke Roll Cymbal Lick
A Double Stroke Roll (up to 7 notes) gives you a 7 stroke roll, this is the left handed variation which can be used between a crash cymbal and hihat to create some nice textures within your drum grooves!
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66633 Drum Fill Lesson
Mixing the (very overused by myself) 6-Stroke Roll and RLL to create a lightning fast sextuplet combo!
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Inverted Paradiddle Fills
Maybe I’ve played paradiddles for too long, but I find inverted paradiddles more musical on the kit. See what you think…
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Resolving Paradiddle-diddles
Try out some new stickings with this Paradiddle-diddle combination exercise.
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3 Reasons My Fills Dont Suck
A collection of tips to make your Fills sound better!
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Paradiddle Fills 2
Time for some more advanced and physically demanding Paradiddle Fills.
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Paradiddle Fills 1
My question with paradiddles was always ‘Why?’, and then I discovered it wasn’t about Rights and Lefts, it was about the musical value of it, and the mechanical U-turns it can provide.
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