Advanced Drum Fills
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Learn How To Play Advanced Drum Fills On Your Drum Set!
Now let's take a look at advanced drum fills. The first thing we may notice is lots of little black dots all over. Thirty-secondth notes, sixteenth notes, all sorts of different notes all over the place. It can look a bit intimidating. Especially for those of you who aren't good music readers yet. Well, don't worry about it. These fills don't have to be played fast to sound good. Take your time and work through them until you get the pattern down, then you can focus on building speed. I can't stress enough how important it is to start these slow. Play them ridiculously slow, and don't worry about the lead in beat at first. Just play the fill over and over until you get it down. Then you can add in the lead in beat to practice it within a more real life context.
Exercises 1 to 5 in the download all use a bar and a half lead in. The fill itself takes up a half of a bar at the end. These are advanced fills with fast notes so there is still a lot crammed into the half bar.
Learn how to play 5/4 drum beats and fills in the next drum lesson!
