{"id":27823,"date":"2020-03-19T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=27823"},"modified":"2022-08-22T09:10:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:10:42","slug":"advanced-drum-fills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/advanced-drum-fills\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Advanced Drum Fills"},"content":{"rendered":"

What makes a drum fill ‘advanced’? Many drummers consider limb independence and playing with time as some of the tougher skills to develop.<\/p>\n

If you learn a concept as a groove or solo, you can still pull sections to use for fills and transitions.<\/p>\n

Here are a few tricky fills for the drummers who are looking for something a bit more challenging.<\/p>\n

Combination Fill<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This Marco Minnemann lick is great for challenging your four-way independence, as well as your speed and fluidity.<\/p>\n

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Herta Fill<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Adam Tuminaro incorporates hertas to give fills more drive:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Quintuplets<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Turn this Anika Niles quintuplet groove into an interesting backbeat fill. Quintuplets are less common in popular music, which can make it difficult to find songs to reference:<\/p>\n

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Left Foot Ostinato<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Here’s an example of a Thomas Lang pattern with left hand accents. It may look like an intermediate lick:<\/p>\n

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…until you add in the left foot ostinato to test your independence:<\/p>\n

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What did you think of these patterns as drum fills? Too easy? Too difficult? <\/p>\n\n\n