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Category: Grouping Fills
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3D Linear Fills, All Content, FREE, Grouping Fills, INTERMEDIATE FILLS, Shuffle Fills, Stylistic FillsLanding Bonham Triplets
A Classic Linear Fill, but how to finish it?
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Stop just using Fours in your Fills
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RLRLL Grouping Fill
Three Fives and a Kick = 16th Note Fill
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Getting Away from Boring Numbers
It’s a world full of Fours… but a little knowledge of resolving 3’s will open up a world of groupings!
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Try these Left Hand Rhythms to improve your grooves
Demonstrated on the cowbell, but great for developing your Ghost Notes too!
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Cool 332 Rock Fill
Flams around the kit, this fill sounds BIG!
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All Content, Crash Fills, FREE, Grouping Fills, Rhythm and Theory, Rhythmic Fills, Speed and ControlSextuplets Sound Amazing!
Working on the Mechanics of getting around the kit in a Sextuplet environment.
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Super Fast 664 Fill
Sometimes you just want to play as many notes as possible. You can play this single or double bass.
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5551 Grouping Loop
Learn a cool Grouping Fill and apply it with some music.
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Resolved Groupings 1
Break out of those Vanilla Drum Licks and explore some simple alternating and non-alternating 3, 5 and 7 phrases. Learn How to resolve them into 4/4 so that they fit smoothly into your playing.
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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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5551 Stacker
Using Groups of Five for an aggressive accented Stack or HiHat based Fill
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3D Non-Linear Fills, All Content, FREE, Grouping Fills, Odd Time Fills, Stepped/ Open HiHat Focused GroovesOdd Time Single Stroke Bark Fill
A challenging mix here, of a 772 Grouping within a 7/8 Bar! Plus some footwork and hihat barks! Good Luck!
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Resolved Fives over a Splash Hat
Using a HiHat foot technique which many drummers dont often use, at the same time as a Grouping exercise with the hands for a great independence workout!
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Fast Moving Threes
One of the first fast drum licks I ever learned. Forces you to focus on efficiency and hand technique to get it fast. Keep those sticks low!
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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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Accented 664 Fill
Accenting the first two notes of a single stroke roll with this grouping exercise. Playing it as a fill creates a fantastic dynamic sound full of energy!
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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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5-5-Snap Fill
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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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Resolving Paradiddle-diddles
Try out some new stickings with this Paradiddle-diddle combination exercise.
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RLL Groove Application
These grooves always sound way more complex than they are, once you get RLL down you will forever be able to insert triplet ghost notes in a groove!
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5551 Fill
This Drum Lesson is simpler than it looks. Playing RLRLL three times, plus one kick drum. Adding up to 16th notes you get a full bar.
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772 Fill
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33334 Fill
Get away from vanilla fills and try resolving this RLL grouping instead!
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664 Karate Chop
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354 Grouping Fill
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4-2 Triplet Grouping Fill
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Syncopated 332
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233 Grouping Fill
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Diddled Grouping Fills
Fusing Grouping Exercises with Double Strokes to create some very fast and flash fills.
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772 RLRLRLL
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555K
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Drum Fills In Strange Places
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332 Syncopation
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5-Stroke Roll Fill
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664 Linear Fill
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3-5-Paradiddle
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3-5-Paradiddle Fill
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