The fills in this lesson will all follow the 'R L L F' sticking in 6/8 and will just be simple orchestrations moved around the kit. If you have covered the linked lesson these fills will be very easy as very little is changing.
In each example you will be presented with a variation on the basic pattern that you can apply as a fill. In some cases accents and ghost notes are used, some use all non accented notes and some use a mixture. All fills are applied as part of a four bar pattern to highlight the change from straight 6/8 to syncopated fours. This pattern creates a pretty cool syncopated type pattern as you are playing blocks of four where you would normally expect threes or sixes. Because of this the timing may take a while to sink in but it is well worth spending some time learning how to use this style of fill.
Most fills will end on a sixteenth note kick, meaning there will usually be a quick run of kicks between the end of the bar of fill and the following groove. Don't let this get sloppy or the part will sound bad! In some cases I have excluded the final kick to show how the transition can be made easier at higher tempos.
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
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