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Category: INTERMEDIATE FILLS
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3D Non-Linear Fills, All Content, Crash Cymbal Groove Placements, Crash Fills, FREE, INTERMEDIATE FILLSLock and Load Crash Attack
Build up tension with some fast kicks, and then let loose the crashes!
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Bucket of Fish Backbeat
Ending a fill on the backbeat sounds great, and linear phrases like RLRK make it easier to do!
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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 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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Intermediate Half 6/8 Linear Fill
Try a Linear Fill idea in 6/8.
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RLRLL Grouping Fill
Three Fives and a Kick = 16th Note Fill
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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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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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Odd Time 5/4 Fills
5/4 is a great place to start getting used to Odd Time, as it is like 4/4, but with an extra beat stuck onto the end. Remember, the math is just for learning, aim for the musical aspect!
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Triplet Shuffle Fills
Building from the ‘Bouncy Shuffle Fills’ Course, here we are developing into some full triplet fills to help us manipulate this triplet based feel.
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Bouncy Shuffle Fills
None of your ‘normal’ fills will work when playing a song that requires a shuffle, so having some go-to shuffle fills will be a big help!
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Triplet Linear Fills
All things to do with RLK, and how to apply them to triplet based grooves. You can also use these with straight grooves too!
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This Is Gonna Herta
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664 Linear Fill
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16th Note Linear Fills 2
Building into some longer Linear phrases now to work these fast and dense sounding fills into your playing.
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16th Note Linear Fills
Imagine if you had 3 arms, how much faster your drumming would sound! Well you have 3 arms, it’s just that one of them is a leg which operates the biggest drum on the kit!
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Short Non-Alternating Groupings
I remember watching a bunch of prog rock drummers playing fills with all these complex sounding ghost notes on the snare… turned out it was this!
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Short Alternating Groupings
Drummers love 4’s, and 8’s, and things like that. But what about Threes? Looking at 332, 233, 323 Single Stroke Groupings
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Fill Resolutions
Here is a look into the wonderful world of odd groupings and how to mix them together and resolve them into 4/4. I love these things!
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