{"id":34359,"date":"2022-04-08T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=34359"},"modified":"2022-08-20T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:37:20","slug":"5-chops-to-improve-your-drum-fills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/5-chops-to-improve-your-drum-fills\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Chops To Improve Your Drum Fills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZMofO8DlTRw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this quick video, Aaron Spears teaches you 5 chops to take your drum fills from &#8216;meh&#8217; to &#8216;wow&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s easy to beat yourself up over &#8216;chops.&#8217; Amazing drummers make it look so effortless \u2013 and they do it so fast that it\u2019s almost impossible to figure out what they\u2019re playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here&#8217;s the thing: chops are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/eric-moore-drum-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">simple patterns broken up around the kit<\/a>. And you can play them too &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/beginner-drum-chops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even if you&#8217;re a beginner<\/a> &#8211; as long as you know the pattern. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So in today\u2019s lesson, Aaron Spears himself is going to break down a few of his go-to chop patterns so you can start playing them at your own pace and work your way up to his tempo. Check it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can&#8217;t get enough of Aaron Spears&#8217; drumming, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IayTqGoP5nQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this video<\/a> where he revisits the song that changed his life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more tips on practicing chops, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-practice-drum-chops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">check out this lesson<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"email-form-include-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/weeklyemail\" frameborder=\"none\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this quick video, Aaron Spears teaches you 5 chops to take your drum fills from &#8216;meh&#8217; to &#8216;wow&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":34363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4017,4026],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beats-and-fills","category-drum-fills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34359"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34398,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359\/revisions\/34398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}