{"id":27821,"date":"2020-03-19T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=27821"},"modified":"2022-08-22T09:10:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:10:43","slug":"intermediate-drum-fills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/intermediate-drum-fills\/","title":{"rendered":"5+ Intermediate Drum Fills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an experienced drummer, you might be tired of basic, predictable fills and are hoping to move on to something a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/intermediate-drum-beats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bit more interesting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some ideas and techniques you can use to create more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/two-non-boring-drum-fills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complex drum fills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Odd Groupings<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Consisting of three, five or seven 16th notes, accents and\/or various orchestrations can form the groupings. Check out example #2 in this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ycEUbPAp4Zk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A grouping of three 16ths forms the basis of possibly the most famous drum fill of all time: Phil Collins\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/how-to-play-17-iconic-drum-fills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cIn The Air Tonight\u201d<\/a>. Naturally, it\u2019s the first example here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bG3mkXOBLZo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re new to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/fastest-way-to-get-faster-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">odd groupings<\/a>, this video will give you a quick but solid introduction:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KcjpVdAPe4w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Linear Fills<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/13121559\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-3.15.22-PM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLinear\u201d in drumming means no two limbs fall together. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/10-levels-of-linear-drumming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linear fills<\/a> can be incredibly cool and textured sounding. The fill above comes from this Carmine Appice lesson on linear playing:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gV2SP6pGEZ4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Typically they\u2019re played with a 16th note subdivision, but if you&#8217;re a beginner who decided to take a peek at this section for fun, you can play linear fills too. Here&#8217;s an 8th note version:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/13103141\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-1.31.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Six Stroke Roll<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/six-stroke-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">six stroke roll<\/a> sounds great when you apply it around the kit. Steve Gadd uses it all the time, and you can too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/22112619\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-2.26.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Watch this video to get some ideas for how you can use the six stroke roll as a fill:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t9G49Mtm6Kc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Neil Peart Solo Fill<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a specific fill created by one of the legends, try this one by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/5-iconic-neil-peart-licks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neil Peart<\/a> (&#8220;Natural Science&#8221; from <em>Permanent Waves<\/em>):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musora.com\/musora-cdn\/image\/quality=85\/https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/beat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/22111853\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-22-at-2.18.11-PM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If these patterns are too easy for you, then you should check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/advanced-drum-fills\/\">these advanced drum fills<\/a>.<\/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>Are you an experienced drummer looking for new fill ideas? Here are some odd groupings and linear fills you can try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":27834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4017,4026],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27821","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\/27821","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27821"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33680,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27821\/revisions\/33680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}