Make Your Boring Fills Sound Big & Bombastic by Adding ONE Thing...
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You can play huge, bombastic-style rock fills like you hear on your favorite records by simply adding your kick drum into some simple hand patterns. I’m going to teach you a really fun exercise you can use to practice this, which starts off very simple but quickly becomes a complex challenge. Not every fill should be huge and bombastic, but you always want to be capable of executing whatever is musically appropriate for the song. Have this ability in your arsenal. By incorporating the kick drum sporadically into singles fills, you can very quickly play complex-sounding, impressive fill patterns. The funny thing is - It’s actually easier to play faster when your right foot can step in to give your hands a break. I hope you enjoy this lesson, because this is one of my favorite types of patterns to use around the kit when playing rock. Learn this, and you’ll be sounding a lot like Foo Fighters, The Killers, or Kings of Leon.
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Hey Everybody! So I'm an idiot, and I totally failed to include the link to the lesson notation PDF. Sorry about that! Those of you who spoke up here in the comments - much appreciated. :) Here it is! the-non-glamorous-drummer.mykajabi.com/big-bombastic-fills-exercise
I'm not a drummer, but I spend lots of time recording drummers. I wish 90% of them watched your videos. Great tips, as always!
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@@depressiondive2725 haha, thanks
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This is exactly what I wanted to learn from my drum instructor in college, but I didn't specify BOMBASTIC fills, so I was basically doing paradiddles with a kick accent and it never sounded right. Knowing the right adjective makes all the difference! Lol
This guy has extremely good content.I have a drum teacher but Stephen gives more advices for free and you can learn more things from this channel than any teacher
He's not using the word "bombastic" correctly lol, so don't take it to an instructor lol. I think he's looking for the word "striking" or "full" or "interesting". Bombastic means pompous and meaningless.
You know he’s a real drummer cause he can’t keep still with the camera. He swings to the beat!
Fills are only boring if you don’t put your heart and soul into them.❤️
Great video!
Stephen, if You read this, You are a good friend to us, thank's man.
Perfect video for me right before band practice. Thanks man! Also, just got the book “stick control” by your recommendation and I love it! Keep being awesome!
Particularly helpful lesson. Thanks!
Mann...dude you really know how to teach! I've been watching your channel for a pretty good while now. I'm a church drummer but thanks to watching your videos...they definitely helped me to be able to know how to keep consistent timing on the drums by not tensing up alot when I'm playing thanks alot man 👊🙏
This is absolutely brilliant! Thanks man!
Steve your the best ,great point ,I'm using the kick bass in 3s and left and right ,but mostly useing the kick bass as a extra stick ,like if I had 3arms ,using it like a drum sticks , instead of a simple fill . I start with kick bass and try to end with the kick ass
Fantastic - very helpful, thanks!
Keep it going. Best lessons ever.
Great stuff man. Thanks for sharing with us!
Great tips, buddy!
Thanks a lot, and keep doing these great videos, my man!
Take care!
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Thank you Steve I had to watch your video three times but I think I will have to watch it three more
Headed to the kit to try it. Thanks!!
Great lesson!
Great examples helping me out thx
Excellent, very useful and applicable.
Well done for sharing it. Thank you.
great vids Stephen! like what you are doing! very relatable! keep it up!
Just practiced that 3:06 practice and that actually took n lot of focus. Really an amazing exercise
This....is.........AWESOME!!!!!! thanks!!!
Another awesome vid bro! I’m all over this!
Great lesson like always.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks!
Great stuff man
You just earned a sub brother. Great style.
Great lesson Stephen! I like to revisit this at 2:46 to get my routine started.
Hi Stephen , thanks your videos and tips are amazing freel. Greetings from Chile
Mentions 3 of my favourite artists- subscribed!
thanks dude for this video, ur a great drummer and ur videos help me to get more creativ on drums and bring my own stuff!
I Thank you.
Friggin perfect video for me
It's funny... I think I commented on a video of you playing a cover somewhere... that you fills were cool - and I figured it was the placement of the kick - so that is what I worked on. I still have a long way to go but have been using this!
3:06 bass drum of death - i wanna be forgotten
Great lesson and amazing drum sound. What’s your signal chain like for your mics?
Me being old school.. Did this in the 80's.. Try this with twin bass drums, I wish I had other videos to share with you on my channel but this was the only tape I was able to grab from years ago.. Take a look Steven and try a twin bass or pedal, you just might find it fun too.
This is great but what was the sticking for that fill you did at 6.16-6-17 minutes? It sounded like some triplet figure. Thanks for posting this.
Thx ur awsome 1 day i will paye myself a lesson from u
Hay Stephen I’m new to yr Chanel & am joying your streams. What ride cymbal are you using?
Hey what type of peals or beads you have on your snare drum so I can know where to find them and try it out for myself Stephen
K Custom are great :). I would like to switch from my A Customs.
What are the ear buds for and what can I hear inside of them
What reso and batter heads do you have on your toms?
just picked this up. I can play that sixteen bar pattern, moving the kick from the 1 to the e to the and to the a .. provided I play the snare pattern with one hand. As soon as I try to play the snare pattern with alternating hands I lose it because my mind is worrying about the sticking .. any tips for that?
Take a drink every time he says "bombastic"
That'll make your fills sound and feel good!
Can you do or have you already done a video where you do tom fills using 6 toms? I have 6 toms and would like to see what kind of fills are possible. Thanks
What size are your rack tom and floor tom ?
Killers and Kol 👌
Does having extra vertebrae in your neck make playing easier?
Thanks for that tips..what specific cymbals and sizes do you use? Thanks
He’s using Zildjan brand planet K line
If that helps
What are those plastic thing on your snare lugs ?
Call it linear frasing, right? You can indulge yourself with note groups!very good Man
Hi Steve - thanks for the vid but I can’t see the download option for the PDF ??? Many thanks mate
Just now added it :) Sorry about that!
Thanks for posting 👍😎
WOW 🥰 I WILL LEAVE DA CLARINET !! AND START DOUBLE KIK 🙄 LUDWIGS VEGAS STYLE BABE!!!!😅
I'm not able to download your eguide . Pls help
Any chance of a heel down foot technique video please
Seconded!
GREAT VIDEO DRUMS ARE AWESOME MY FAVORITE INSTRUMENT ANYWAYS ARE YOU SAVED? I COULDN'T IMAGINE HEAVEN WITHOUT YOU YOU HAVE A GOD GIVING TALENT KEEP UP WITH THE GOOD WORK
my advice to make fills greater and sound more bombastic is: 1. Use youre Basedrum in your Fills, its okay to play nothing else but a single basedrum hit at a time it sound fucking awsome 2. Use ur Hihat when u play Fills! this mean you play with youre left foot quarter notes on the hihat, u can even go eight notes and so on, just keep sure that ur left foot is playing in a smooth difference between the hit, not going faster or slower! 3. Use Doubles with ur hand, so if you have fills with 16 notes try to double first a single 16th note with 1 hand. my advice is to play the straight 16 and than go to 32nd notes doubles, you need to know the hand movement is exactly the same like th 16th variation, the doubles comes from ur wrist and rebound! 4. before u start a fill go "looser" on ur hihat with foot, try to loosen ur hat when u play it, use ur left foot, but dont do it to much unless u play rock! 5. before u start a fill u can do a buzzroll with ur left or a drag, it sounds amazing and gives more drive to ur fill. 6. play energetic! its important to know that ur muscles play the drums so you should keep a good posture and play with energy! this doesnt mean play loud it means to play in the moment! try out and have fun!
one really good fill is RLKK over and over again. but the issue is that if you wanna do it fast, you're gonna need double pedals. and also, don't hit the same drum with both the right and left hit, cuz then it'll sound shit.
one pattern I really like that I took straight out of Pneuma is snare high tom kick kick mid tom high tom kick kick floor tom high tom kick kick. just repeat that real fast and you got a Danny Carey fill
Great video! Where is the excersice sheet ?
Just now added it :) Sorry about that!
What brand of earplugs are you using. I'm really suffering from tinnitus and need some advice on good ear protection.
Not that you asked my opinion but etymotic makes an earplug that is perfect for musicians. Only attenuates certain frequencies, not all. Perfect for my gigs or concerts. You can find them on Amazon or maybe their own website, I forget. Hearoes also makes some but you have to make sure they fit your ears.
@@Felipe-js1wl Thanks, man.
@@sevensilverflowers no problem.
AWESOME LESSON!! Where's the pdf download? cannot seem to find it.. Thanks In Advance
my old boss was a real bombastic bastard.................. but the drums are tuned very well, sounds great.
I'm new , and I suck ! So thanks for the videos . I just discussed cause sometimes my hands forget which way they are going and I try to hard for speed..
JUST GOOO... and you see... dont STOP !!!
Play slow with a metronome. You'll get fast quicker when you practice slower
Hang in Larry. I'm 69 yo, and returned to playing drums after a 51 year Hiatus. In 1966 I was bit by the Bug to start lessons at a local music store in Flushing Queens NY. After maybe 8 lessons, I got a drumset and played with 2 high school buddies for a couple of years as a "garage" band. We were all learning our i instruments, the 3 of us. Never got out of the garage, but had some fun. I played by ear, never really ,earning to read drum notes in music. Now, 51 years later, I was gifted a cheapo drum kit and started playing at home in retirement. For fun and pleasure. I don't really practice except for just playing along to My Music and playing drums to that music. Best I can anyway. Like anything in this life, Practice does evoke Perfect. Have fun with it....... For the record, I play: Melloncamp, Petty, Stones, Beatles (Ringo was much better than he was given credit for ), Springsteen, CCR, Melisa Etheridge, even some Clapton...... good basic Rock. If i can play through the tunes without missing beats and experiment with added fills, I am a happy camper. Be well and Safe all.
@@Chiroman527 thanks , that is really inspiring, I too play just for myself , and my enjoyment. Just get frustrated cause I've been at it about a year now . But thanks again
@@larryprice6321 a good exercise for me is to play 4 bars of singles then 4 doubles then 4 paradiddles at 60 bpm without stopping. Play for 5 to 10 minutes then up the tempo to 70 and so on. Try to keep things as clean and as even as possible, especially at slower speeds. Do that every day and you'll be amazed how quickly things will improve.
GOD LOVES YOU ALL MY FRIENDS
I'm expecting this to be another banger video
Some Dave Grohl grooves there❤
I play a bucket drum kit I built.... Two 55 gallon drum cut in half for bucket kick drum's... different sizes for Tom's ...👍🥺
Your drums sound sooooo good
Gretsch Renown RN2. Killer drums.
@@bakedalaska4363 do you know what kind of snare?
@@ezraterry4219 Yes, that's the stock 14 x 5.5 snare that (optionally) comes with the Renown shell pack. It's an absolutely wonderful drum, just like the others.
@@bakedalaska4363 thanks, I will look into getting that snare.
This is the road to louis cole
It is very difficult to see the drum beating when the camera is from above, the truth is the camera from the side
Cant see the PDF download option sir
I sent this link to Lars Ulrich.
I don’t think Lars needs help coming up with bombastic fills
Bonham triplets, L,R,K. L,R,K
He said they're not triplets they're just groupings of three In the Drum Corps that's the definition of a triplet
@@johnsparks007 Yep, you're right. And I put that there in case anyone was wondering. So technically, they're triplets, and groupings of three. Reading you're definition is like tracing a circle.😵
Stephen; nice video, but at the beginning when you speak -- STAND STILL -- it is difficult to watch you sway back and forth.
in other words just go and buy the '' bass drum control book"" by colin bailey , the first four excersices of the book are exactly the same as your excersices , very nice lesson for those tha are too lazy to read and the idea of a book scares them! have a nice day stephen!
CCM drummers are crashing here soon 😂👍
When i was 17 people told me i wan amazing drummer. To me i was crap. I watch these videos and say to my self if these videos were around i would have been so much better. Ps... i still really suck
I wish this beats a little slower😓
Change the playback speed of the video itself
Listen to Ringo's fill they are NOT drums fills,, they are tympany accent.
Listen to Charlie Watts .. font do ANY of thos.
Wanna develop REALLY powerful fills ? Listen to Ringo;s "WHAT ARE YOU DOING" use THAT pattern on every song any style any speed.You just became 200% a better drummer
It would be worth noticing that these fills are related to ghost notes and flams, which are related to shuffle, swing (jazz beat), foxtrot, and disco beats.
- So, it's all coming together..
How come, that all aspects of drumming are related..
Hey, not that you asked my opinion but my favorite earplugs that I use as a musician are made by etymotic. They are great at reducing some but not all frequencies so that I can take them to my gigs or even concerts where I want to enjoy safely. Hearoes, or however they spell it also makes a similar design but make sure they fit your ear.
It's not free when you ask an email subscription for it. Otherwise great stuff!
You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means...😜
You hold the sticks terribly