The intention with the patterns in this lesson is to help improve your ability to switch between grooves and fills. The exercises are similar to our A B Exercises Using Eighth Note Fills only we have added in two more 'A' bars. The structure of all exercises here will be A A A B structure where A will be a bar of groove and B will be a bar containing a three quarter bar fill built from eighth note rolls.

As before, the important thing here is to repeat the four bar phrases over and over, preferably with a metronome, until you can play the part several times without any breaks in timing. I have provided various lengths of fill to mix things up.


Example 1

A four bar phrase using sixteenth note fills.


Example 2

A four bar phrase using sixteenth note fills.


Example 3

A four bar phrase using sixteenth note fills.


Example 4

A four bar phrase using sixteenth note fills.


Example 5

A four bar phrase using sixteenth note fills.


TASK

  • Using the 2 minute rule, get all phrases up to a tempo of at least 135bpm.
  • Create your own versions of these patterns.

Lessons

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