This month we will continue with a section from Joe Franco’s groundbreaking book, Double Bass Drumming. This month Modern Drummer are including Joe’s explanation of double bass fills using his Single Stroke System, and include several of Joe’s fantastic sounding double bass fills from the book. Double Bass Fills Double Bass Fills patterns are broken up systematically between both hands and both feet. These patterns can be used as one bar fills. They can also be repeated or combined with each other to form extended fills and solos. This section of the book deals with sixteenth notes, later we will deal with eighth note triplets. The top line of each pattern will be labeled HANDS and can be played on different drums. For example, in the following pattern the HANDS are played on the SNARE. The HANDS can also be broken up between the SNARE and TOM. For example, the […]

September 2022 Issue