'R L R L' Fills Following A 'Triangle' Orchestration

In this lesson you will be constructing some more fills from the RLRF movement. The concept you will be using this time is based on the 'Triangle' movement first used as a single stroke roll orchestration exercise. A link to this lesson and some other lessons you might find useful can be found at the bottom of the page. All exercises presented on this page should be taken as construction concepts that you can then expand on to create your own fills. If you have covered the exercise linked below, these patterns will be pretty straight forward.

Each fill is presented as part of a four bar phrase and will be built using various different lengths and various different parts of the kit. It may be worth breaking each pattern down into its individual parts to make the learning process more straight forward. The main thing to focus on with these parts is the kick placement. It should fall exactly on the 'a' count, in between the two hands surrounding it. If you find the part is sloppy, slow it down to focus on your note placement.

A trick you will notice is used a lot in these fills is ending on a quarter or eighth note rather than a full 'RLRF' shape. This creates a bit of 'space' before returning to the main part which can be affective, but also removes the two quick 16th note kicks you get between the end of the fill and start of the groove. This is handy when you are playing at higher tempos. In a couple of the later examples I have also included some straight runs of single strokes just to mix the fills up a bit.


Example 1

A four bar phrase containing a fill built using the RLRF shape


Example 2

A four bar phrase containing a fill built using the RLRF shape


Example 3

A four bar phrase containing a fill built using the RLRF shape


Example 4

A four bar phrase containing a fill built using the RLRF shape


Example 5

A four bar phrase containing a fill built using the RLRF shape


Example 6

A four bar phrase containing a fill built using the RLRF shape


TASK

  1. Using the 2 minute rule, get all example phrases up to a tempo of at least 130bpm.
  2. Create your own versions of these fills.
  3. Include these fills in 4 and 8 bar patterns.

Lessons

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