brentcn
Platinum Member
Much of what I've seen on using rudiments in fills, I've never found myself playing -- the stickings are weird, the rhythms are lame, and the notation is awful, and mostly, the end result is boring and unimaginative. So, I wanted to share this little lesson on using rudiments in fills. Obviously this is a pretty broad topic, but these are a couple of simple, but practical examples, in a basic rock setting.
The overall idea is simple. First, take a 2-beat fill -- 8 16th notes long -- and add some accents to it. Then, on the non-accented notes, play double strokes instead of singles. Usually, the result can be described in terms of rudiments: a 6 stroke roll, then a Lesson 25. But it's not necessary to "think" in terms of rudiments, all you have to do is keep track of the accents, and play doubles on everything else.
Enjoy!
Another possibility would be to keep the non-accented notes on the snare, but voice the accented notes onto different sound sources. For example, you might move the left hand accents to the rack tom, hi-hat, or crash, and the right hand accents to the floor tom, ride, or crash.
Still another idea is to substitute flams for the single, accented notes, so that you wind up playing combinations of flam accents, pataflaflas, flamacues, etc.
The overall idea is simple. First, take a 2-beat fill -- 8 16th notes long -- and add some accents to it. Then, on the non-accented notes, play double strokes instead of singles. Usually, the result can be described in terms of rudiments: a 6 stroke roll, then a Lesson 25. But it's not necessary to "think" in terms of rudiments, all you have to do is keep track of the accents, and play doubles on everything else.
Enjoy!
Another possibility would be to keep the non-accented notes on the snare, but voice the accented notes onto different sound sources. For example, you might move the left hand accents to the rack tom, hi-hat, or crash, and the right hand accents to the floor tom, ride, or crash.
Still another idea is to substitute flams for the single, accented notes, so that you wind up playing combinations of flam accents, pataflaflas, flamacues, etc.