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Playing the crash cymbal as part of a fill

The most common use of the crash cymbal is after a fill. Accordingly, we are now going to look at including the crash cymbal whilst playing a fill.

Probably the best way of introducing the crash cymbal into a fill, is by playing the crash cymbal as part of a single stroke roll.

The next exercise is basically a single stroke roll played on the snare drum. The key difference is that the first note, on beat 1, is not played on the snare drum, it has been moved onto the cymbal.

Exercise 3

As we said earlier, the crash cymbal sounds better with depth added to it. Accordingly, we are going to add the bass drum. The next exercise adds the bass drum underneath the crash cymbal on beat 1.

Exercise 4.

Next: Playing the crash as part of a groove and fill

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