Improve Your Drum Fill Improvisation

Improve Your Drum Fill Improvisation

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This lesson lays out a template designed to force you to create drum fills on the fly. Practicing this template daily will help to develop your ability to improvise drum fills and to gain a better understanding of your fills' feel.

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Publisher of OnlineDrummer.com, Alfred Publishing author, Ddrum artist, and veteran Drum! Magazine contributor, Nate is a graduate of John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio and holds a Master of Arts in Education from the University of Findlay.

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