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By Wesley Newton Published on: Mon May 9, 2022
Play an eighth note groove for a bar, follow it up with an eighth note/sixteenth note fill at a slower tempo. Add the kick drum on every right-hand single stroke rudiment based on the time value of each fill.
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This blog talks about playing eighth note and sixteenth note fills around the kit. With the challenge of transitioning from an eighth note groove to a sixteenth note fill, things can get quite interesting. Let’s get started!
To play an eighth note fill, you have to know how to count in 8th and 16th notes. If you haven’t already, please go through the previous blog posts that talk about playing eighth note and sixteenth note grooves.
Now, again, let’s keep the base as the 8th note groove that we are already familiar with. Once you play a bar of the 8th note groove, start with the single stroke rudiment on the snare drum, hi-tom, mid-tom and the floor-tom.
That would be a single stroke with the right and left hand on the snare drum, single stroke with the right and left hand on the hi-tom, single stroke with the right and left hand on the mid-tom and single stroke with the right and left hand on the floor-tom. Keep in mind that after the fill is complete, we need to resolve the groove.
So, once you end the fill on the floor tom, end the groove with a single stroke on the crash along with the kick drum.
Note: Every single stroke with the right hand must have a kick drum to go along with it during the fill (8th Notes).
Although playing a sixteenth note fill is faster than an eighth note fill, if you count the note values loud, playing a fill wouldn’t be much of a problem.
Therefore, a sixteenth note fill would be 4 single strokes on the snare drum, 4 single strokes on the hi-tom, 4 single strokes on the mid-tom and 4 single strokes on the floor-tom, which is counted as: 1-e-&-a-2-e-&-a-3-e-&-a-4-e-&-a
Don’t forget to resolve the groove with the crash and the kick drum played together on the 1 of the following bar.
Note: Add a kick drum on 1-2-3-4 when you play a single stroke with the right hand (16th Note fill).
Here is the rhythmic representation of an eighth note and a sixteenth note fill all around the kit:
This is an important exercise that you need to practise well in order to further your learning of the drums. In the next blog post, we will look at the concept of triplet fills and how to master them. Continue reading and learning how to play drums.
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