How To Create Cool Drum Fills

Description

This week's lesson features part 2 of our beginner's groove and fill lessons.

Here we are focusing on a simple sticking pattern that incorporates two kick drum notes into the beginner, single-stroke 16th note drum fill. Once we have established the sticking pattern we then explore voicing options to create a number of cool sounding drum fills.

PRINT LESSON NOTATION (PDF)

VIEW PART 1 OF THIS SERIES

Get Started with the Quickstart Guide!
Need a step-by-step approach to learning drums? Get Alex Ribchester’s Quickstart Guide to Playing Drums. Over 2 hours of video lessons and Alex’s Quickstart ebook.

Learn more here!

Author

Alex Ribchester

Alex Ribchester is a professional drummer and teacher based in Royal Tunbridge Wells, UK. Download Alex's Quickstart Guide to Playing Drums.

EPIC POP-ROCK DRUM BEAT ON THE TOMS

This week's lesson takes it to the toms with a fun, pop-rock-sounding drum beat. The kick pumps away on... read more

Stick Trick from “Fun with Four on the Floor” – Drum Lesson

This is a stick trick variation built from beat #2 on the “Fun with Four on the Floor” sheet... read more

How To Play The Rosanna Shuffle – In 3 Steps

The Rosanna Shuffle is one of the most iconic drum beats of all time. The groove was played by... read more

More Linear Drum Fills – 33343

In this lesson, Alex lays down some sweet linear drum fills and licks demonstrating his new ebook release, "Rockin'... read more

How To Play Guilty All The Same – Linkin Park

This week's lesson walks through the drum part played during the outro of Guilty All The Same and some... read more

Baba O’Riley – Drum Beat

The classic song from The Who, "Baba O'Riley" has a catchy groove that follows the rhythm guitar. read more

Low Tomming The Hand Kick Kick

Nate Brown takes last week's hand kick kick pattern and applies it to some low tom ideas for a... read more

Where You Put Your Emphasis

By placing an emphasis on the “up” stroke, you create a unique syncopated groove. This technique can be used... read more

Drum Roll Please – 5-strokes & 9-strokes

This week's lesson takes the basic 5-stroke and 9-stroke roll rudiments and applies them in interesting ways around the... read more

Creating Your Own Fills

This is a simple concept that is great for creating your own drum fills. In this video we use... read more

Born To Be Wild (Intro & Solo) – Steppenwolf

Part 1 of 5 from the DrumMusic.tv drum lesson package, "Born To Be Wild," is made available free on... read more

The Looking Glass – Dream Theater – Intro

In this lesson, learn the intro to The Looking Glass by Dream Theater. With some concealed time techniques and... read more

Introduction to Voices in Drum Set Notation

Have you ever been confused by the presentation of a drum part? Were some of the note stems heading... read more

Sixteen Beat Sample

Sometimes when you need a more energetic feel, alternating sixteenth-notes on the hi-hat are just the thing called for.... read more

16th Note Triplet Crossover Drum Fill Idea

In this weeks lesson we have a fun drum fill idea that we can orchestrate around the drum kit.... read more

How To Create Cool Drum Fills