Drum Fills??

[des]

on some songs the drum fills are in the right spot but it seems that they are in random places and it totally ruins my groove. some times i'll just do nothing because i should be doing the given beat or groove via hi-hat snare and not a out of place fill.

[Grayshadow]

Hmm, the fills seem to be in appropriate locations to me. If they're messing you up, you can just continue doing the standard beat during that measure, add a crash at the end, and you should be fine.

[sporkBrigade]

on some songs the drum fills are in the right spot but it seems that they are in random places and it totally ruins my groove. some times i'll just do nothing because i should be doing the given beat or groove via hi-hat snare and not a out of place fill.

The thing is that drum fills don't have to be crazy. You're right, sometimes they needed to throw in a fill in a random spot for balancing reasons, but I don't think it has to throw off the groove. Just make it a more subtle fill. A quick pause, then a double snare hit to crash is just as much of a fill as going crazy on every pad.

I suppsoe this isn't so much directed at the OP as much to all the animals out there. :D

[batsu336]

Agreed that just because there is a fill space doesn't mean that you have to go nuts. I think the spots are in places where a drmmer could throw in a simple fill. It's not like they put them in the middle of a lyric, on the 3rd beat of a 4 beat measure. You must learn control, young Padawan.

[des]

The thing is that drum fills don't have to be crazy. You're right, sometimes they needed to throw in a fill in a random spot for balancing reasons, but I don't think it has to throw off the groove. Just make it a more subtle fill. A quick pause, then a double snare hit to crash is just as much of a fill as going crazy on every pad.

I suppsoe this isn't so much directed at the OP as much to all the animals out there. :D
i never go crazy on my drum fills. my fills are real drum fills. i do small fills with only snare or snare/cymbal combos but what i was trying to say is for instance..... they would throw in a fill just before the natural song fill that requires me to hit the colors right. IMO it kills the song and the natural fill.

[des]

Agreed that just because there is a fill space doesn't mean that you have to go nuts. I think the spots are in places where a drmmer could throw in a simple fill. It's not like they put them in the middle of a lyric, on the 3rd beat of a 4 beat measure. You must learn control, young Padawan. thanks but ......i've been playing the drums for over 25 years son...... i know how to play. maybe its you guys not knowing how to play and your not seeing it. or not.... dont get upset, but its obvious your not experiencing what i am.

[XeroTalent]

thanks but ......i've been playing the drums for over 25 years son...... i know how to play. maybe its you guys not knowing how to play and your not seeing it. or not.... dont get upset, but its obvious your not experiencing what i am.

LOL, we're all super impressed. Congrats on your douchebaggery.

[Kythlyn]

I wish I could play the actually notes written by the artists... the random fills are annoying, especially because the drum sounds are not consistant.

[sporkBrigade]

i never go crazy on my drum fills. my fills are real drum fills. i do small fills with only snare or snare/cymbal combos but what i was trying to say is for instance..... they would throw in a fill just before the natural song fill that requires me to hit the colors right. IMO it kills the song and the natural fill.

Dunno. 95% of the time I see the fill in the right spot, it rarely comes off as random. I do agree, now and then there's one that just sticks out, but it hasn't struck me as a problem. Only example I can think of where an improv fill came before a charted fill would be in Keith Moons stuff, but that's only because half the song sounds like a fill to me.

The one that's more common to me would be in Reptilia, where the beat is actually insanely simple. So most of the drum fills there are actually just inserted in where no fill exists. I've really had to practice to get the fills to sound natural because they stick out so bad, and that's what my original post intended to address.

[switchdoc]

Yeah what gets me is the fill drums don't sound like the drums from the rest of the song. That makes it harder to do something that sounds good IMHO.

I also tend to not go too crazy because I don't want to throw myself off the beat and have problems after the transition back.

-Switch

[des]

LOL, we're all super impressed. Congrats on your douchebaggery. i know i sounded lame there and im sorry , but im just interested in everyones opinions. the fact is most peeps on here have been playing for a long time or long enough. i guess really its just a toy drum set and we really cant expect too much. most of the time i have to do down and play my real set just to feel good after a RB session.