Or any quasi-Cuban, Caribbean, salsoid Latin style. Mozambique is our default for thing for that type of groove. I’ve covered this way of filling before, here I’ll give suggested accents and stickings for a timbale-like […]
Category: fills
Reed tweak: paradiddle inversions – Jack’s option
This is a sticking variation on the 16th note RLLR-LRRL paradiddle inversion system, that was improvised by mistake by one of my students, age 15. We have a different relationship to mistakes on this instrument. […]
Reed tweak – figure on cymbals
Here’s a method for practicing filling in figures, that will work with most Reed systems, and involves accents on both the cymbals and the drums. For the examples we’ll use 8th notes accented to match […]
Embellishing the Reed linear system
I call it the Reed linear system, it’s a thing I started doing on my own years ago, using Reed— the book Syncopation. I imagine others do it, because it’s kind of obvious. I never […]
Fill phrase with RH lead on toms
We’ve got a good little fill unit going here lately— usually these might be taught with a single instruction, “groove first measure / RH lead second measure”, and that’s mostly enough, but, reading from Syncopation, […]
Free 8th note fills in 2/2
In the middle of a big fill unit with several students. Here are some sketches of single measure fills with 8th notes in 2/2, with minor embellishments, for moderate tempos. Stickings are left unspecified— you’ll […]
Reed tweak: expanding a fill phrase
Opening up a stock fill phrase I use with my students, reading, as ever, from Syncopation. A couple of easy moves for not being so barline oriented. This has a pretty energetic feel, with a […]
Fills with Stone
For a student, here is a summary of some things we did in a lesson— putting some singles exercises from Stick Control (pp. 8-11) onto the drum set. We’ll make a two measure phrase out […]
Six stroke roll exploiter
Another very dense page of stuff based on the Ultimate Paradiddle Builder page, and companion to my paradiddle-diddle exploiter page. I’m getting very grandiose in how I name crap. It’s fun, try it sometime. Between […]
Paradiddle-diddle exploiter
Heavy paradiddle unit happening here lately. Here are some ways of playing the paradiddle-diddle section of my Ultimate Paradiddle Builder on the drum set. The formula is pretty simple, you can easily apply this to […]
Filling in funk beats – 01
This is in development, it’s not necessarily a finished “lesson.” We’ve done a lot making simple rock beats into fill phrases, here we’re doing that with a more complex beat— looking at some possible ways […]
More three stroke ruff phrases
Some more jazz phrases with the open three stroke ruff— that’s the terminology for any occurence of three fast notes, in certain circles. Presented in the manner of Joe Porcaro’s Drum Set Method, in which […]