The fill construction idea presented in this lesson is a way of applying the 'R L L F' sticking and will involve playing one block of the shape followed by a flam. In most examples the flam will be a quarter note, giving you a nice bit of space before moving back to the next section. These ideas should be fairly straight forward if you are familiar with this grouping but I will try and throw a few curve balls in to keep the parts interesting.
Below I have listed several fills that follow this construction idea. I have put a note with each of them to explain what is happening.
Example 1
A very basic version of the fill where one beat of RLLF is played followed by a quarter note flam on the snare. The intention is for the first two beats to be played as groove.
Example 2
This time you are using the Right Hand Orchestration concept through the bar and ending on a quarter note flam.
Example 3
A similar idea to that shown above but this time you are playing a straight roll around the kit for the first two beats. The flam here is split over the floor tom and snare.
Example 4
This time the fill is bit more rhythmic with some more flams added. A 16th note snare is added after the flam here too.
Example 5
Here's the curve ball I mentioned above. In this version the 'RLLF' actually starts on an '+' count.
Example 6
Again exploring the idea of starting the RLLF on the '+', this time some crashes are accenting an almost '332' style rhythm whilst the remaining notes are filled with the RLLF.
