Drums For Beginners: How To Play Cool, Simple Drum Fills And Stay In Time!

Back to basics today - if you want to be a drummer (a drummer that other musicians will want to play with anyway!), my advice would be to make it your business to be able to keep count of where you are when playing a basic drum groove, and to be able to play simple single stroke roll 16th note drum fills which start on beat 1,2,3 and 4 of the bar - then crash back into your groove on beat 1 and keep it rolling, in time.

These are absolutely core skills that are IMO a much higher priority at first than than: playing fast, playing fancy bass drum patterns, plays any kind of licks or chops, trying to learn any particular famous songs, or just about anything else. These are the basic skills that you’ll lean on again, again and again in your drumming.

Recommended drill is 3 bars groove, 1 bar fill (1 bar containing the drum fill)

Have fun and please let me know if any questions,

Mike 😊



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