In this lesson you will be increasing your familiarity with the Time Signature Of 6/4 by playing one beat fills at the end of the bar. These exercises will essentially be a bar of 4/4 groove followed by a bar of 2/4 with a fill, but all combined into one bar of 6/4.
Various ideas for grooves have been taken from our level 1 and level 2 grooves lessons. A variety of rhythms and rudiments have been used for the fills.
Example 1
A simple groove with four sixteenth notes for the fill.
Example 2
A simple groove followed by a fill made up of a flammed sixteenth note grouping.
Example 3
The groove here uses Offbeat 16th Note Snares and the fill is straight sextuplets on the snare.
Example 4
This groove uses 16th note right hand decoration and Double 16th Note Bass Drums. The fill is a 16th note grouping with a Drag.
Example 5
A groove using Offbeat Eighth Notes followed by a Four Stroke Roll fill.
TASK
- Using the 2 minute rule, get all exercises upto a tempo of at least 120bpm.
- Play a four bar phrase in 6/4 where the fourth contains a one beat fill. Repeat this phrase over.
- Create your own one beat fill in 6/4.
