3 Easy Drum Fills That Sound Hard

Faster Hands & Feet (in 10 days)

Are you an ‘experienced beginner’ or intermediate drummer looking to add some more complex-sounding vocabulary to your arsenal? This is the lesson for you.

In just 10 minutes, you’ll learn three fills that are actually really easy, but sound difficult.

0:00 Intro
2:25 #1. Groups of 3 as 16th notes
5:47 #2. Groups of 5 as 16th notes
8:47 #3. Groups of 7 as 16th notes

Since drumming is mostly a combination of singles and doubles – just changing where you place them – the sky’s the limit when it comes to writing and playing fills. These ones help build skills with your left hand leading, and involve odd groupings of 3s, 5s, and 7s translated to 16ths.

Don’t forget to experiment with these combinations around the kit in whatever order sounds or feels good to you. Start slowly and then try them out at higher tempos.

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“I wanted to get my left hand more involved.”

- Every teenage boy ever

[khamlisenaga]

Nobody: How many Toms you will use??
Jared Falk: Yes

[jalel_z]

Why do none of these tutorial drummers ever have a normal 5 piece kit

[Stretched]

This is wild, I just bought a drum kit the other day so I just looked up a drum fill tutorial and here you are posting one ten minutes before I started looking! Thanks dude 🤙🏽

[Antlegs]

"3 drum fills that are really easy if you have 13 toms"

[ex]

I’m liking all the plants in the background, can never have too many indoor plants lol

[Max-ddow]

Jared: these are super easy

Me: what the falk?

[davidgomersall]

Been following you guys for about a year now and I have to say a massive shout out to you for not only providing some of the best teaching content out there but also for opening my eyes to drummers I had never heard of and styles I had never considered before. Keep on doing what you are doing and spreading that positivity 😁

[LikeaGlove]

The first fill is something I'm practicing and I've never felt I sounded cool until now (even tho I know I still sound like a dork!). I'm having fun, that's all that matters. Thank you so much for these simple videos - this changes everything for us!

[fuzzydrumming]

Love how you made the sections on videos' timeline: thanks!

[gregpatnude]

Great video and tutorial. Really spells it out for people.

I got lucky -- I'm a left handed drummer that plays right -- I was trained in public and private and learnt the standard rudiments in 1969 at age 7. I'm 61 now and play/practice regularly with a band or two. Because I was trained by right-handed people, I learned to lead right when playing the drums but would naturally try and lead left.

Everyone should master their triplets, diddles, flamadiddles, paradiddles, and any kind of odd-number (3-5-7-9-11-13-15-17) patterns as fills, and single-stick patterns with either hand.

Once you can switch your lead- and patterns back and forth start dropping/missing beats out of the pattern (simply rest (^) instead of sticking it) -- start moving the sticking onto the various drums and other noise makers and you get cool-ass syncopated -arpeggiated odd-meter-patterns and grooves that sound like nobody else...

The trick I had to learn was being able to fluently switch patterns, sticking, and target (drum/tom/cymbal/cowbell, etc).

[assassin]

I never really looked into playing fills with different sticking, so I always play RLRL. But man, this sounds amazing! Definitely going to try this! Hopefully it will take my fills to the next level. Thanks so much Jared! This is why I love Drumeo

[ajinkyajadhav]

Best drum fills it. sounds so good and professional 💯😍

[connerdavenport]

Those paistes sound so clean! Fills are neat too.

[varin]

Amazing fills👌🏻👌🏻 Thank you drumeo for these lessons!

[thegamingturtle]

Johnny Bravo back at it again with the drum fill tutorials 🤩

[dairyairman]

Cool! I never thought of doing these, especially the 5 and 7 group patterns. I tried them and they're all very playable. Thanks!

[patrickpaulsen]

Jared, I just wanna say how impressed I continue to be by your transparency and humility in your drumming. You are obvious;y far beyond most drummers, yet are not afraid to admit your struggles....well done.

[SuperDrummerJay]

The key is to not have a dominant hand, honestly. I wrecked my right wrist in high school, and had to play in our Jazz ensemble with double sticks in my left hand. (I was right dominant at that point.) When I first went to college, our lead drummer in Jazz was a lefty, and set his kit up that way. When we would trade for songs, it took me way too long to switch his kit to fit what I was playing. So I set up my kit at home as a lefty, and learned the songs playing on a "backward" kit. Try it out! Give it some time, take some easier songs you know well and play them on a "backward" kit. Your interdependence will improve if you get past the initial frustration from it!

[erensametkaratas]

I've been struggling for a while now with how to do fills while having a nice rhythm. I've watched some videos and none of them helped. Not that they were bad videos, it's just they didn't work for me. But with this one, I think I finally got it and it feels like it clicked. Thank you for this foolproof video.