{"id":829,"date":"2014-10-21T17:47:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T00:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/blog\/?p=829"},"modified":"2022-08-22T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T18:54:41","slug":"toto-africa-drum-fill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/toto-africa-drum-fill\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto&#8217;s &#8220;Africa&#8221; Drum Fill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JO8E_u5bYx8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;<br \/>\n<strong>***<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/destupefying-your-weak-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Free Series: De-Stupefy Your Weak Hand<\/a>***<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/drumeoblog.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/totos-africa-drum-fill.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here To Download The Sheet Music<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to show you a drum fill from one of my favorite drummers: Jeff Porcaro. This fill is taken from Toto&#8217;s song &#8220;Africa&#8221;, and I love the use of spacing in it. It&#8217;s a nice change to the crazy fills that you see highlighted all the time, and it fits the song perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff had two variations of the fill, so I&#8217;ve covered both of them in the video. Go ahead and download the sheet music so you can follow along. And make sure to leave your comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216; ***Free Series: De-Stupefy Your Weak Hand*** Click Here To Download The Sheet Music I want to show you a drum fill from one of my favorite drummers: Jeff Porcaro. This fill is taken from Toto&#8217;s song &#8220;Africa&#8221;, and I love the use of spacing in it. It&#8217;s a nice change to the crazy fills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4017,4026,4016,4022],"tags":[65,13,87],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beats-and-fills","category-drum-fills","category-songs","category-tutorials-and-transcriptions","tag-drum-fills","tag-drum-lessons-2","tag-mike-michalkow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10995,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/10995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}