In this free drum lesson, Jared Falk, of the DrumLessons.com team of instructors, takes you through your first drum fills in 7/8 odd-time signature. These three patterns are a great way of getting you started with 7/8 odd-time signature drum fills. These drum fills will also have you working on your feel for playing in 7/8 odd-time signature, hand-to-foot coordination and playing drum fills with rests. Give this lesson a whirl – you won’t be disappointed.
If you’re delving into the world of 7/8 odd-time signature for the first time, we encourage you to check the free drum lesson “Learning 7/8 Odd Time” before you go through this one. There, you’ll be given some basic exercises for developing your feel for playing in 7/8 odd-time signature, as well as some tips on how to count in 7/8 and on how to use drum beats and drum fills in 4/4 to come up with variations in 7/8.
If you’re having any timing issues with these 7/8 odd-time signature drum fills take a step back. Focus on exercise #1 and play it on the snare drum for a while. Don’t perform this exercise in a beat-fill-beat combination from the get-go. Play it on its own and along to a metronome. Since this is a fairly basic hand pattern, you can focus your attention on your timing issues and in getting your hands and your mind to feel and think in 7/8. This will help you a lot in getting you to feel 7/8 rather naturally, and therefore, in being able to play these drum fills accurately with ease. Don’t forget to count out loud as you practice in 7/8 – it’s essential for developing your feel for this odd-time signature.
Once you’re done with this free drum lesson, we encourage you to check the free drum lesson “Intermediate 7/8 Drum Fills“. This free drum lesson is the second of a series of three that will have you learning beginner to advanced drum fills in 7/8 odd-time signature. If you’d like to apply the tips provided with the free drum lesson “Learning 7/8 Odd Time“, on how to use drum fills in 4/4 to come up with variations in 7/8 odd-time signature, we encourage you to use the free drum lesson “Beginner 16th Note Linear Drum Fills” as your guinea pig.
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I am a drummer but my hand is still hard on the drums and i need drum rudiments, fills, and beat to improve myselt
4/4 simply means there are 4 crotchet beats in a bar. And I think think there’s no way one could be confused buy this.
4/4 time means 4 bpm and the quarter note gets one beat. 7/8 time means obviously then, 7 bpm and the eighth note gets one beat. Does that help?
hey dude. 4bpm would be one beat every fifteen seconds.if you help somone know the facts yourself. I can’t let you say that to someone, without correcting it. 4/4 means quarter note gets one beat. 7/8 means instead of quarter being 1 2 3 4its 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Hi Jared,
Many thanks for the lessons. Bit confused. Are these eighth notes written as sixteenth notes ?
Kind regards,
Rodney Worthington
please refer to the above post from me. thanks.
Dont listen to that guy actually. Because what he is saying is that timing is realted to tempo. 4/4 doesnt me there is 4 bpm thats totally irelavant to anything to do with timing. 7/8 just means its counted as 1and2and3and4and5and6and7and1and2and3and4and5and6and7and etc. Hope that helps you out bro.