Share a Drum Fill

Here's one I've been using the past couple days. You can put the hand notes on any drum/cymbal you want. The kick notes...well, those are played on the kick.

16th notes on 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a:

RH LH RF RF RH RF RH LH

You can also do this as 32nd notes on 4-e-&-a And-e-&-ah. (Or 4-a-diz-a And-a-diz-a as some people like to count it. )

I've been trying to get good with Swiss Triplets and taking them across the toms ...sorta Billy Cobham style.

^sounds good on my desk , I'll give her a spin later.

So this is pretty much a Tony Williams fill , off one of the tracks on Neptune , poorly transcribed/heard improperly by me.

Hands are on the FT and SD the whole time ending on the "a" of 4 w/ SD and Crash.

H H H BD H H H BD H H H BD H H BD Crash

of course there are many many variation.

Some times I'll use double bass to double or triple the BD part , hands remain the same.

Not mind blowing, but I've been throwing this into everything lately. Playing just about anything with straight 16th or 32nd on kick, alternate 4 kicks with 4 snares, or something like that. This can make for some pretty cool sounds when mixed with a good guitar sound.

BD BD BD BD Sn Sn Sn Sn BD BD BD BD BD+Sn BD+Sn BD+Sn BD+Sn

Or random inverse combinations:

BD BD BD BD BD Sn Sn Sn BD BD BD Sn Sn Sn Sn Sn

Looks like somebody's been watching Liquid Drum Theater. If you haven't you probably should. Lotsa good uses for this exact approach.

S T1 B B FT T2 BB S

Ha, no I haven't checked that out.

right hand on floor tom, left hand on snare. k-kick drum

all 16th notes. all right hand hits accented, all left hand hits ghost notes.

r l r l k k r l r l k r l k r l

FLAM-B-RLR-B-FLAM-B-RLR-B-FLAM

Start and end on snare flam.

R+F-L-RL-RL-R+F

Start and end on ride/kick or crash/kick

(S-S-S-S-S) (B) (FLAM mounted tom & floor tom) (B) (FLAM floor tom & S) then FLAM crash two cymbals!

If it sounds how I think it should - each kick drum an off-beat 8th? - then that's tasty!

My entry:

Kick-Snare-Rest-Snare-Rest-LRL-Snare-Snare

One bar fill. The divisions are 8th notes. LRL (or RLR if that's easier for you) is a 16th-note triplet, ghosted and played on the snare.

lessee if i can tab this one out how it makes sense ... been using this one a good bit lately:

RL RLR L RL L RLR L

heh. maybe that makes sense. i usually accent the last 2 notes of the triplets on the kick drum and the single left hands after said triplet with a crash or open hi-hat. really just tying together a couple triplets.

Ummm dunno, wing it lol :poke:

Sometimes spice it up with a little heel toe on one or two the kicks, gives a little blurp, into the flam.. Is blurp a word? Couldn't say what the timing is.

Might help if everybody says how many beats you're covering with these fills and on what beat they start.

RLLLLR is much easier to figure out if I tell you it's 3-& 4-e-&-a (or at least that it's 2 eighths and 4 sixteenths).

YOU ARE LIMITING MY CREATIVE EXPRESSION!

these are great! I especially like the ones from longfuse and Slap Happy

here's one of my faves:

LRB LRB LRB LRB

all 8th note triplets. Sounds great with both hands on the snare, but it's a nice change to put them on different sounds from time to time

and another:

RLR B B RLR B B RLR B B RLR B B RLR B RLR B

this one needs more explanation. It is a 2 bar fill; the RLR pattern is a 16th note triplet that goes:

snare®-mounted tom(L)-floor®

the bass drum is an 8th note hit.

So it would be counted like:

1tl + 2 +tl 3 + 4tl + 1 +tl 2 + 3tl + 4tl +

It sounds really cool and any tempo, but might need to be spiced up a bit if you take it really slowly

9 stroke roll...RRLLRRLLR

First right on the ride, second on the HH

Left always both on HH

First right of the second Pair:Tip on Crash, secon on the HH

Final Right on the crash w/the bassdrum

EDIT: I can't believe this was from 09'...

16th note triplets...FSSSKK

F = floor tom

S= snare

K = Kick

you can then do these arounf the kit...

I like using this little one-measure rudimental riff to kick off one of the new tunes in my funk band, Zagnutt - something about doing the sixtuplet as a paradiddle-diddle gives it a nice bounce. Play it with a circular feel and move a hand or two to different drums, or keep it crisp on the snare - it sounds sweet.

Man, I wish there was a way we could actually type "notation". It would be cool it they could put an app or program on here, that could do that.

+1

+2

It ain't that hard, guys - technology is on our side.

1.) Write it by hand.

2.) Take a picture by phone.

3.) E-mail it to yourself.

4.) Post it.

That's what I do!

there was a program that I (and a couple of other dudes here) were experimenting with a couple of years ago, but it's too damn cumbersome. I just write it out and take a pic now.

I hear 'ya, but it's still a PITA. Nice if we had an on board way of doing it. I rarely have access to a camera, anyway.