What are drum fills? How can they be used in a musical context? In this video lesson Jared Falk answers these questions and teaches 5 different patterns for you to use as drum fills. Jared breaks them down slowly so you can see exactly how to play them, and how they sound. As an added bonus each fill is also played in a musical context. In this lesson you can download 2 versions of the track Jared plays along to in the video. Use them for practicing these or any other fills you’d like.
Any pattern played on a drum set, or even on a pad is nothing more than a sequence of strokes. For any of the exercises shown bellow start by practicing the sequence. Once you’re comfortable with it, play the exercise to a metronome. This will help you line up the strokes perfectly. Afterwards, you can start playing the fill with a beat. Use the beat provided in the sheet music for each one of the exercises. Once you’re comfortable with it try using your own beats or any other beat you’d like instead.
Drum Fills
In this first exercise we have a basic 8th note pattern played on the snare and around the toms. This is a fairly basic stock drum fill with a decent amount of challenge nonetheless. Practice with a metronome and start out slowly. Increase the tempo of the click only when you’re comfortable with the fill. After you’re done playing the fill you can crash on beat 1 of the following measure on one of your cymbals. This is a very common procedure for signaling the start of a new phrase or section.
In this 16th note drum fill we take a step further in regards to the previous exercise. Instead of playing 2 notes per drum we play 4. This means this fill is two-times faster, so it’s really important to start out slowly with this one. Rushing the learning process may create unwanted tension in your wrists, sticks clicking, and getting poor tone out of your drums. By relaxing your grip you’ll get a richer tone from your drums, your skins will last longer, and you’ll decrease your chances of developing repetitive strain injuries. Speed comes with control and relaxation, so take your time. Also, focus on hitting the center of each drum to produce a consistent tone.
Fill number 3 is just like the previous one. However, instead of playing 4 strokes per drum we split them up between the different drums in groups of 2. The biggest challenge in this fill is getting the transition between the floor tom and snare drum, when playing right hand lead, or the transition between the snare drum and the floor tom, when playing left hand lead, flowing effortlessly. This is so because your leading hand will crossover the other hand to start hitting on the new drum, causing a lot of stick clicks and drops.
Exercise 4 is a bit more challenging than the previous ones, but it’s also a very fun one to play. The pattern is a lot more broken up and incorporates the bass drum in your fills for the very first time. Since this fill gives use to your bass drum foot in a 16th note roll, the coordination needed is a lot more demanding than if you were only playing the role with your hands. Take this exercise really slow and give your body time to really understand and perfect the timing needed for transitioning between hands and foot.
This exercise is a good reminder of how creative one can be when creating fills. Any voice of your drum set can be used on a fill, there is no written rule here that says you have to only hit the snare, toms, or cymbals. When you’ve mastered this drum fill try using your left foot on the hi-hat pedal instead of the bass drum foot as an added challenge that will increase your left foot control and coordination.
In the fifth and final exercise we take a look at another 16th note drum fill. This one is a little awkward at first because of the placement of the tom strokes. This can be especially hard if you are not used to moving your weaker arm to play syncopated notes on a different drum from the one your main hand is at. The secret to have this under control is to learn it very slow and get really comfortable with the sticking pattern.
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