[gyutae]

What are some of your favorite fills? I know that in a lot of music a lot of the same fills come up. One of my most frequently played fills is just a simple 8th note pounding the floor tom, snare, and bass. It's good for buildups especially. Of course I like to play some more complicated things as well.

So what are some of your favorite fills? Do you have a "trademark" fill that defines your style?

[Davenhurst]

Don't know about having a trademark fill, but there are a few I use pretty frequently.

One is just a simple 8th note snare fill but you extend the fill into the next bar by 2 notes, crash on the third note then back into the normal beat for a snare hit on the fourth. Simple but effective. Of course it's good to throw in some variation, so perhaps instead of 2 extra 8th notes I'll chuck in a triplet or 16ths.

I also like doing a triplet fill around the kit, but starting on the floor tom and working up to the snare - can be quite a tension builder.

For a fine example of really interesting quick little fills may I recommend listening to "Good Morning, Captain" by Slint. It's an unbelieveably good track and the drumming is astonishing - so natural and intuitive but full of little unexpected moments. The way the drummer (Britt Walford) uses the crash is a slice of genius too.

[gyutae]

It's amazing how the little things can make such a huge difference in drumming. For example, anyone can hit a crash, but what makes someone a crash genius? Some people are just born with drum instincts and I think that's amazing.

[gyutae]

Originally Posted by Davenhurst

One is just a simple 8th note snare fill but you extend the fill into the next bar by 2 notes, crash on the third note then back into the normal beat for a snare hit on the fourth. Simple but effective. Of course it's good to throw in some variation, so perhaps instead of 2 extra 8th notes I'll chuck in a triplet or 16ths.

I love hearing delay fills like that. It really accents certain parts of a song that need some extra emphasis. A lot of times I'd hit the snare on the "and" of 4 rather than 4 and this adds this delay effect as well.

[AvengedDrummer]

Hmm this is hard to explain but if you have a six piece set and you do a sixteenth note fill with each note on a dfferent tom it sound really cool. Like this... sorry i suck at tabbing out drum stuff.



T1 0-------0---------
T2 --0-------0-------
T3 ----0-------0-----
FT ------0-------0---

[Davenhurst]

Originally Posted by gyutae

It's amazing how the little things can make such a huge difference in drumming. For example, anyone can hit a crash, but what makes someone a crash genius? Some people are just born with drum instincts and I think that's amazing.

Agreed.

(Slint - "Good Morning, Captain", seriously, give it a listen. I'll keep going on about it until the world has heard it).