Creative Combinations for Fills This workshop is dedicated to what I refer to as hand and foot rolls, a particularly powerful and interesting way to orchestrate single-stroke rolls. Be sure to check out the QR codes throughout this lesson for links to video demonstrations of some of these patterns. To dig into this concept, first play a single-stroke roll between your right hand and right foot. In terms of coordination, this can be quite difficult at first and can take a long time to learn. But it also can be a great concept to integrate into your playing. Let’s start with preliminary exercises utilizing triplets. The right hand starts the roll and plays the floor tom. In Exercises 1 and 2, only play the right hand in the first bar. Add the bass drum in the second measure without changing the leading hand’s accented figure. I don’t play the following […]

November 2019 Issue