Summary: Learn tips on how to play a bass drum on a drum set and how to combine beats and fills together for rock music in this free music lesson video clip.
Kevin Grossman is a young drummer who is studying music at the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, in the University of Hartford. He currently plays in the up and coming progressive band...read more
"So, now we're going to combine all of these beats together using fills, so what you can do is you play the beat. So, if you check it out here on the music you'll have the beat is two measures long, so you'll play the entire beat and you'll play one more measure of it and then when you get to here you can do a one measure drum fill or you can do a drum fill on beats three and four or a drum fill on just beat four if you want. It's really all up to you what you do. But, let's just do this. You can read along as I play. I'll play that and I'll fill into the next one and I'll do that all the way down the page. One and two and three and four and. So, you get the idea. Just play through all of these and then just practice your drum fills going into the next beat and you'll be playing the drums."
eHow Article: How to Combine Bass Drum Beats & Fills
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GLEN5150 said
on 6/19/2009 like it, nice and straight foward