Moving One Beat Fills In 6/4

We have already covered some simple One Beat Fills In 6/4 where various ideas were placed one the last quarter note beat of the bar. However, there is no rule that says your fills have to be placed there so in this lesson you will be exploring ideas for taking those fill ideas and moving them to different points within a bar of 6/4.

For each example you will be given a different beat of the bar the play the fill on, two examples will then be given. Any parts of the bar that aren't fill will be played as groove in these exercises.


Example 1

Play the fill on beat 1. Notice that these fills end with a snare on beat two to keep the shape of a common time groove.

An example of moving a one beat fill in the time signature of 6/4 An example of moving a one beat fill in the time signature of 6/4


Example 2

Play the fill on beat 2.

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Example 3

Play the fill on beat 3. As with example 1, the fills here can end on a snare to keep the common time groove feel.

An example of moving a one beat fill in the time signature of 6/4 An example of moving a one beat fill in the time signature of 6/4


Example 4

Play the fill on beat 4.

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Example 5

Play the fill on beat 5. As with examples 1 and 3, the fill can end on a snare.

An example of moving a one beat fill in the time signature of 6/4 An example of moving a one beat fill in the time signature of 6/4


TASK

  1. Using the 2 minute rule, get all exercises upto a tempo of at least 120bpm.
  2. Play a four bar phrase in 6/4 where the fourth bar contains one of these fills.
  3. Create further variaions on each example.
  4. Experiment with using this concept to longer fills.

Lessons

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