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EDS Lesson Three  Introducing sixteenth notes

Developing simple drum fills using quarter notes

Playing the drums really requires you to do two things:

We have in Lessons 1 and 2 been looking at grooves. We are now going to use the knowledge we have gained to play fills as well.

The next exercise requires you to play a simple bar of groove followed by a bar of quarter notes.

The quarter note fill should be played around the kit, with beat 1 on the snare, beat 2 on the hi-tom, beat 3 on the mid-tom and beat 4 on the floor tom.

Refer to the drum map (on page 7) which shows you which lines of the stave relate to which drums and cymbals.

Exercise 2

Exercise 2
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