Level 4 · Sixteenths & Fills · 4-2
Your first fill
Three bars of groove, one bar that fills, and a landing back on 1.
What you play
B bass · S snare · g ghost · restbar 1 · groove
1
B
e
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g
a
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2
S
e
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g
a
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3
B
e
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&
B
a
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4
S
e
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&
g
a
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bar 2 · groove
1
B
e
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&
g
a
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2
S
e
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&
g
a
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3
B
e
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&
B
a
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4
S
e
·
&
g
a
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bar 3 · groove
1
B
e
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&
g
a
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2
S
e
·
&
g
a
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3
B
e
·
&
B
a
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4
S
e
·
&
g
a
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bar 4 · fill
1
B
e
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&
g
a
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2
S
e
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&
g
a
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3
g
e
g
&
S
a
S
4
g
e
g
&
S
a
S
60 BPM
startpass
How to play it
- 1Loop until it is boring. That is boom-boom crack from 3-2, nothing new.
- 2Add beats 1 and 2 of , still the groove skeleton, and loop all four.
- 3Add the fill: beats 3 and 4 of go ghost ghost snare snare, twice. Alternate hands, no double strokes.
- 4Keep the fill at groove volume. The only job of the fill is to hand you beat 1 of the next cycle.
- 5Record about 90 seconds of the full cycle.
Listen forThe three groove bars hold a steady tempo, the fill bar stays at that same tempo, and beat 1 of the next cycle lands cleanly; hands stay even through the sixteenths.
start 60 · pass 85 BPM · take about 90s
Record a take
I start the click at 60 BPM, count one bar, and stop after about 90s. Phone about a metre away, facing the front plate. You get my notes within a minute of sending it.
Watch out for
- • Rushing the fill (the number one fill crime everywhere)
- • Nailing the fill but missing the landing on 1
- • Fill much louder than the groove around it