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Category: Rhythmic Fills
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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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Broken Stickings
Take your Normal RLRL sticking, and poke holes in it!
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Prolonged Ghost Note Application
Deceptively simple, yet effective when used in context!
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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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The Advantage Of Slow Songs
If a song is fast, there is not much room for expression, so take advantage of slow songs where there is more space to fill with fancy stuff!
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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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Broken Shuffle Fill
Moving from ‘Bouncy’ Shuffle Fills to dissecting triplets and breaking them up. Know your theory, master your fills.
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Some Beginner Drum Fill Tips
Beginner Ideas on where to take your drum fills if they are starting to sound boring.
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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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Crash De Crash Placement
Rhythmically this Crash Placement looks tough, but it’s not overly difficult to do and sounds great when played with a groove!
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Three Note Mechanics
Talking through the mechanics of getting from one side of the kit to the other, and a great fill exercise that will help you develop those mechanics.
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Linear Manipulation Fill
Learn a drum fill that mixes a RLK Linear sticking with some note rate manipulation.
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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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Simple Herta Fill
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Sneaky Shock Drum Fill
Forget big long fills. Just play a really fast fill in a quite shocking place within a straight groove.
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Sextuplet Fast Thing
Enhance your drum fills by shifting from 16th notes to sextuplets, whilst exploring crossover speed mechanics around the drum kit.
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Sextuplet Linear Fill
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Excitement Builder Fill
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4-Stroke SNAP
Take a four stroke roll and work it into a sneaky little drum fill, which builds up to a snapping snare accent.
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R,LRL,RL U-Turn
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Single Stroke Dynamics
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Left Hand Move It!
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Basic Crash Fills
A first look at working the crash cymbal into your fills, whilst playing the kick to give it more power.
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Slow Down Illusion
Manipulate Note Rates to create the illusion of a speed change.
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Groups of 3
Looking at two popular groupings of three, and using them together.
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Stuttering Linear Triplet Fill
RLRLKK Sextuplets into a ‘stuttering’ Flam triplet for a startling and exciting drum fill. Audiences love this one.
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6/8 16th Note Fills
Doubling up our note rates for some faster sounding fills in 6/8.
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6/8 8th Note Fills
Let’s translate some of those 8th note fills into a 6/8 environment.
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Back Beat Build Up
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Drum Fills In Strange Places
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This Is Gonna Herta
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Broken Fill
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Stealth Fill
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Strawberry Coconut Fills
Looking at Three Note Fill Groupings now, there are two main variations we want to master, and I call them Strawberry and Coconut because that is how they sound.
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Mixed Note Rate Fills
We have explored three Note Rates so far, now it is time to learn to mix them together to create some great rhythmic fills!
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16th Note Fills
Working on some ‘Faster’ fills now, working on the mechanics and also how to work them with Grooves.
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Musical HiHats
Learn a rhythmic hi-hat pattern that diverges from normal methods of using the hi-hat as a rigid grid for coordinating bass drum and snare drum notes.
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The ‘Close Your Eyes and Hope For The Best’ Fill
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I Call It A FROOVE!
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