In this lesson I will be showing you an example of the RLLF Pattern used in a practical context. I will be looking at a very short extract from the song The Fallen Interlude by Blink 182 and you can find the part at around 1:29 into the song. The original version of the fill is played as 32nd notes so is very very fast. For the purpose of this lesson I will be halving that to 16th notes to make it a little easier to follow. It would be very helpful if you are familiar with the original RLLF exercise linked above as the whole fill is based on this.
This fill is going to split into two different sections. In the first a syncopated version of the fill is used and in the second half the straight on the beat rhythm is followed. We'll look at the syncopated version first. In this you are played a six note pattern that follows This Sticking with some orchestration, accents and ghost notes added in. To make the learning process a little easier let's start without accents or ghost notes in the first bar, that looks like this:
Get comfortable with the movement then try the version below that includes dynamics:
That gives you the full first bar so spend some time getting the dynamics tight and all notes evenly spaced. To play a long to the recording you would need to aim for a tempo of 188bpm, which is crazy fast! Push the tempo as high as you can and try including some groove in with the fill.
As mentioned above, the next bar just uses the straight version of the exercise and a really simply orchestration is applied. Each right hand moves around three toms and all snares are played as ghost notes. Then on beat 4 a flam is played. That whole second bar looks like this:
Again, get the part to a point where you can play it solidly then have a go at pushing the tempo as high as you can get it. The final step if to put the two bars together and this is shown below: