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Fill Er Up! 11 Trusty Rock Drum Fills

June 23, 2013 by Mark Feldman 4 Comments

Fill Er UpHere’s a bunch of simple but effective rock drum fills you can use right away.

All of the fills involve alternating single strokes and they all begin with the right hand and alternate throughout (r l r l etc), EXCEPT where a different sticking is indicated on the work sheet.

These are straight up hands only fills that use only three drums: snare, hi tom and floor tom.

I use many of these fills in my playing and they work great.

For practice purposes, work on the fill itself first, then insert it into a two measure phrase, where the first measure and a half is a rock beat. Begin the fill on beat “3” of the second measure and crash on “1” of the following measure, and continue this loop to make sure that you keep the flow between the groove and the fill. The only exceptions to this are with numbers 8 to 11. These four fills begin on the “and” of three, so you will play the beat for one eighth note longer before beginning the fill. Try them at different tempos, from 80 bpm to 160 bpm.

Here’s the PDF: Fill Er Up

Filed Under: Beginner's Drum Lessons, Drum Exercise Worksheets, Rock Fills Tagged With: Rock Drum Fills

Comments

  1. George says

    July 14, 2015 at 10:01 pm

    Nice. Number 7 is good for faking the break from Phil Collins — In the Air.

    Reply
    • Mark Feldman says

      July 15, 2015 at 6:54 am

      Thanks, George.

      Reply
  2. Fredrik Eidenskog says

    October 26, 2018 at 5:35 am

    Number 9 is perfect for Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk

    Reply
  3. Mark Feldman says

    October 26, 2018 at 3:39 pm

    Yes!! Totally. Hope you have fun with these….

    Reply

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