Drums: Practicing Fills

Video Transcript

"So what I am going to be doing in this series is, normally we want to play a three measures of a beat and a one measure of a fill, which will sound like this. [Playing drums]. What we are going to do just so that I can play more fills for you, is I am just going to play one measure and the fill. So, it is going to be like this. [Playing drums]. When you practice, you can definitely practice these in groups of four instead of groups of two. Three beats, three measures of beat, one measure of fill. You don't have to do that, but the reason I am doing it this way is just so that we can fit more in. We are going to go through a bunch of different fills. Keep in mind with all of these fills, we always want to get back to our hi-hat hand, in my case it is my left hand on the hi- hat. So, we will be keeping that in mind as we think about stickings."