7 Rock Drum Fills for Beginners 

I used to play drums in high school, never took lessons, just played by feel. Listening and repeating what I heard. Was given a drumset and learning to play again. This was a very simple and effective way to teach this. Thanks for the explanation.

The sound of that Yamaha kit is AWESOME, specially kick and snare

That's a 10/10 sounding bass drum. Wow.

"Sometimes the best notes, are the ones that aren't played." -Dave -Michael Scott

I like how he doesn't waste time talking. He just tells you what to do and shows you an example. Period.

Before we play fills, we have to say the fill oath: “I will never play fill just because I want to.”

I’ve been playing drums for about 6 years. Picked it up at 46. I’ve always been a drummer in my mind if that makes sense. I am in total awe by anyone w chops. Wish I picked it up at 15 or 16. Love the lessons.

When I make hip hop beats I like 1/4 beat fills at the end of the 4th and 12th bars, half at the 8th and full at the 16th. It gives the beat more movement.

This is good stuff . Perfect for a beginner and a good review for an intermediate player. Thanks for bringing this to us . And thanks for breaking it down and explaining everything. Sheet music really helps too!!

That whole kit including with the cymbals sounds STUNNING!!!

This was so fun! Getting back under a kit for the first time in 30 years and doing these over and over, and variations of, is perfect to not only get moving with the click again but to feel progress and to be able to put 4 bars together. Thanks for keeping it simple for us "beginners". Subscribed!

9:15...so true.. alot of drummers overplay,without realizing they're repeating themselves...sometimes you just need to groove with a good bassline,or guitar playing and wait for your turn to shine. This guy is on point!!!

I've been playing for a few years on and off and this past year I have been putting time In and taking it seriously along with my work out routine. I love lessons like this , back to the basics and I love the bonam triplet 4 bar fill , u can use it with any genre and it's sounds awesome. Even the other couple of simple 16 th note and the 8th note crusendo one. And " U won't get fired for not overplaying or counting 4 quarter note rests " Awesome teaching Dave!!!! Back to the Basics sometimes I get more results practicing basic , hands and feet and subdivisions. singles doubles , and basic single double para didles👍❤️

Awesome! Need more lesson on Rock drum fills like this one ... thnx for the tips... 👍

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This channel should be ranked very well. They got all it takes.

Thank you SO much for this video! I have avoided playing with other musicians just because I have been incredibly bad at doing fills. I just never know how to end one and return to the main beat. I am going to study your video a lot!

I am new and have a Steinberg Cubase. As a guitarist with no drums knowledge this content saved me to get an idea with creating drum patterns thank yov🙋🎶💯🙏🙆

I'm beginning to play just for fun. This is _exactly_ what I needed. And the first fill, silence, glad you added that, because it's easy to overlook.

This is great. I do not find the concept that difficult but your final point about integrating the fill with proper time , is exactly what I struggle with after 6 months of playing. And of course finding proper fills without studying 1000 fills. Great lesson. Organized well.I will study this video as part of my practice routine.

I’m not a drummer but now I understand what fills are, thank you

The 16th notes on the snare are cool, but I always like to drop the third one Just a little pause that, for me, sounds great

I have a drum teacher in my school who can't read drum notes and the music sheets. This video has inspired me! Thanks! Great drum kit by the way

By far….. the best fill video I have found on RU-vid. So helpful

This guy blows my mind. Creates an expanse in drumming I refuse to try not and understand.

Every time you play that kit, it gives me chills 👌

I have played guitar since middle school, something about the guitar just looked cool...but after a few years (as well as a few years studying classical guitar, because of Randy Rhodes) I just heard the drums more than anything else (probably because I was listening to Metallica ...and Justice for all album lol) and I loved the way a fill would make me feel ... those fills from Rush that Neal would play moved me more than anything else in a song. I wanted a drum set so bad, so I could learn what it was that was moving me, but at that time was on my own and lived in a small apartment. Next door to me at that complex lived an old hippie type bass player, he loved funk and he said that the bass guitar was what I really wanted to play to get that “THUMP” in my blood and that was what was moving me not the drummer. So I bought a bass, because guitar timing in rock was so closely the same as the timing as the bass, I thought I would learn some funk...my first song on bass that I ever feel in love with was the Sanford and Son theme song. Learned it, loved it but still had that desire to play drums. A good high school friend of mine, who was also a bass player loved Primus so I learned a lot of their songs as well as R.H.C.P. and their timings and style. But again was NEVER satisfied! I went to the piano (keyboard) and learned some of the basic chords, formations, songs and styles of the most popular classical pieces and the popular piano and Key players of today...from Queen, E,L&P, Floyd, to the WIZARD from Dream Theater... but couldn’t scratch that itch... I would just hear the drums... Emerson Lake and Palmers “Lucky Man” oh my! Instead of listening to the keys in Dream Theaters songs I found myself lost because the fills would make me want to stop what I was doing to hear the drums more clearly! 25 years later and my wife bought me an electric kit... HOURS AND HOURS of PURE SCRATCHING pleasure... I was like a dog who had fleas, or a gambling addict who had a roll of scratch-off lottery tickets... that ITCH was being scratched and all I wanted to do was recreate some of those moments when I heard System of a Down’s drummer, or some of those great jazz fills (only using 1 tom snare kick and a couple cymbals) or get that (I guess it could be called a high maybe?) to get that BUZZ like the first time I heard Iron Butterfly’s In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida but quickly realized the way I thought they maybe doing it was with a TON OF DRUMS (too many 80’s videos I guess?) So now I’m here, I want to UNDERSTAND what it is that makes my heart weak when I hear those perfectly placed fills.

Thank you for this video. I don't play drums, but I do program them and this simple video answered a big question for a non-drummer. I plan to get a kit at some point, so this will definitely give me a good boost when the time comes.

These videos are very useful I played a bit in high school but hadn’t touched a drum set for 15 years until I got an electronic kit. I have always really played by sound and feel never took many lessons. The 16th notes all around the kit that I have been playing for every fill had been getting old lol

Thank you drumeo never too late to learn the basics!

You are very thorough and to the point. Wish yoh were close to where I live I would so take lessons. Keep it up brother. You're awesome!

New drummer here! I have been watching this and trying to play these fills. Slowly getting the gist of them,,, hard work but sooooooo enjoyable! Thank you for posting this, love this video ✊🏻 much ❤️

This one was helpful please make a video on single pedal technique and easier way to practice video and also how to choose which foot pedal is best for you

You got this my friend! I really enjoy playing the drums I just gotta practice more

Right on! Taking drum lessons and absolutely absorbed this fill session. Thanks 🙏🏻

Really keen to get back into drumming again. Messed around a few years ago but sold my kit when I moved. Most def getting another one, gonna eat these vids up, thanks a bunch for the lessons and your time.

Amazing! You say what you are going to teach, then you teach it. That’s rare in videos. Kudos

Good job Dave. Thank you and I thanking Jesus For you and Drumeo create team production and great lessons.

I just started drumming and your videos help me a lot thank you

This is very helpful for a beginner who's 1 week old ! Thank you !

Thank you for this well-organized video. Am learning to play drums by watching videos, so have seen many videos in the past year. This lesson was one of the most practical and best done I have seen. May I suggest a similar style lesson on little tricks that show drummers use, like emphasizing a joke by the MC, playing something to bring a performer onto the stage, or getting the audience attention with a drum roll?

Excellent tutorial, some great fills and very well explained. Thank you.

Dave, you're an awesome teacher - thank you!

probably one of the best fill tutorials I have ever seen!

Thank you so much Dave for a great drum lesson! Learned a lot from this video!

Love this! Complete noob here. This guy is a great teacher.

The fill at 8:46 is great. I had to slow it down to see how simple it really is. See if I pull it off

this just cured my learning block with drumming THANK U

I've been playing for 5 years and I have no idea why I clicked this

thought I knew the basics till I tried the build-up fill, exposed the weakness of my left hand and how it's hard for me to stick it with my kick on the quarter count, my build-up sounds like my left hand is doing a flam, thank you for this tutorial!

Very good lesson, I can recomment it to every beginner and drum teachers as well

Consepts. Space and simplicity. Great advice ✌️🤘🥁🏴🇦🇺

You’re an amazing teacher I got so much out of this

Thank you for the clear explanation! Always good to get back to basics every once in awhile.

This is really awesome and super helpful!! I just started drumming a few weeks ago and it’s so fun to be able to try some of these!

I'm not a beginner but it's still great to see this again, thanks.

Playing 40 years.. Less is always more.. :)

Very simple tips, very useful at all

Great lesson and I absolutely agree sometimes the best note is the one not played

If you're a beginner, take note of how consistent he is when he plays, every snare hit is liek the other, every hi hat tic is like the other. Something to aspire to...

You have a best drum kit.

I had a great learning experience. May God Bless you brother..

This guys a beauty. Wicked kit too

the flam one is so simple... but so good

My tempo. My beat. My fills. [everyone else packs up their gear and leaves...drummer plays by himself]

I always followed rhythms intuitively, just started actually learning to play today, this lesson is incredibly simple and useful!! Thank you!!

Dave: Most fills end with a crash. Wallflowers drummer: Hold my cymbal. 😉

"Space is your friend" - I like that!

Best drum sound on youtube. That kick drum is unreal

Bro, your are a fantastic teacher, please keep up the great work.

The sound of those crashes played together.......

Insightful, for beginning drummers of all ages.

Those are all great tips! For further experimentation, there are those double, n even now, triple bass pedals to really kick it up a notch! A triple bass pedal maybe abit much, but none the less, the beat goes on...

That kit sounds so good.

Exactly what I was missing in my beats, thank you so much

Thank you ... helpful for those of us starting out ~ and I like your teaching style... VERY clear and easy to follow!

I like Dave’s temperament and the way he describes things.

Thank You .You Rock as a teacher.You have a nice way of explaining what your saying.I really like that.

Thank you, learning finger drumming on Akai pads and this was more helpful than the finger drumming vids. :)

Thanks so much for making this video! 😊 It made me better in beats and fills

This is sweet! I play guitar, piano, cello, and some bass guitar, but I really want to round things out with drums. Right now I don’t even have a kit, so I’m literally playing with some pens, but I’m trying to internalize all of this, so I can get a head start when I do get a kit!

Nice drum beats 👌👌

That first drum back beat is nice !!! Intro at beginning

Cool Just started playing in my first band and these fills are gold!

Thank you , This was so helpful for me to play a fill in time

Bass drum sounds huge holy crap. Need a lesson on how to get drums to sound like that!

Excellent video!! Please do a video on 1/8 bar fills - those little "hiccups" that appear in a verse to give movement....love those

You guys are such a good teachers 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I did not know you can play that good... super!

Beginner's opinion here: Out all of these, the hardest is the triplets because in all its simplicity, being a tiny bit off-time is really audible. Also, starting the crash with your left hand is a very unusual motion, so yeah. Great video overall. I'd like to see more 1080p 60fps videos rather than 4K 30fps like this one.

Love your teaching style, Bravo thanks

Love this lesson. Very simple concepts to try them out. Thanks Dave

Thanks Dave for the great explanations, as always!

Thank for this excellent video! I'm looking to create a 50's-style rock 'n' roll song based around an exciting drum line, and you've got some great ideas for me to look at here! Silence for a bar is great, too!

Thanks I got it! This helped a lot! Legend!

Man great video, I'm a beginner and this one was really helpful!!!! Thanks

I think that drum is gonna be my dream drum! (Thank you for our drum teacher!!)

Just what I needed?! Thanks

It very nice for me... Wish to be good like this guy...