A while ago, I was practising with a band, the number we were doing ended with a repeated guitar riff, I got lost as to where we were / how many times we'd repeated that riff. I played a whole bar/measure triplet fill on the snare, and then realised it was the end of the number, not setting up another repeat, so I crashed on the 1 and stopped. The band all laughed and someone said "I thought we were going to go round again!"
Ever since then I've wondered if there are any "rules" (or perhaps "conventions" would be a better word) for fills? I know that triplet fill on the snare would normally indicate that we were going to "go round again", but I'm not sure why.
I had a friend come round a few days ago to play some songs he'd written and I tried putting drum parts to them. One of them had two "extra" bars between verses, where he just strummed, and I didn't know whether to end the verse with a fill, or set up the next verse with a fill at the end of the extra two bars. It got me thinking about this "rules/conventions" thing again.
I know there's no hard and fast rules to anything, depends on the song etc., but wondered if there might be some sort of "fills 101" to give a starting point for working things out ... things you just don't do, things that only work at a particular part in a number, anything like that ?
Ever since then I've wondered if there are any "rules" (or perhaps "conventions" would be a better word) for fills? I know that triplet fill on the snare would normally indicate that we were going to "go round again", but I'm not sure why.
I had a friend come round a few days ago to play some songs he'd written and I tried putting drum parts to them. One of them had two "extra" bars between verses, where he just strummed, and I didn't know whether to end the verse with a fill, or set up the next verse with a fill at the end of the extra two bars. It got me thinking about this "rules/conventions" thing again.
I know there's no hard and fast rules to anything, depends on the song etc., but wondered if there might be some sort of "fills 101" to give a starting point for working things out ... things you just don't do, things that only work at a particular part in a number, anything like that ?