In this lesson you will be creating half bar fills from a single stroke triplet. The fills on there own shouldn't be too hard if you have learned the rudiment already, the difficulty will come in switching to and from a standard bar of 4/4 groove. At the bottom of the page you will find a collection of links to other lessons on this topic.
Each exercise contains a bar of groove followed by a bar containing one beat of groove and three beats of triplet fill. The groove is included to highlight the importance of practicing switching from groove to fill, experiment with playing as many different groove patterns as you can think of.
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Example 5
Example 6
TASK
- Using the 2 minute rule, get all exercises up to a tempo of at least 135bpm.
- Add each example into one of the structures we have covered previously.
- Create your own fill pattern using these concepts.
- Use various feet patterns in each fill.
