5 Great One-Bar Drum Fills! Grade 1/2 Level

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Five cool examples of drum fills that can be quickly and easily created using the TEA - COFFEE - CAPPUCCINO - BLACKCURRANT - MOTORBIKE method.
Short version:
1. Choose tea, coffee, cappuccino, blackcurrant or motorbike for each of the four beats in the bar.
2. Play the phrase you've created around the kit as snare, tom 1, tom 2, floor tom for beats 1,2,3 and 4.
3. Orchestrate it! This is where the fun really starts and you get to play the pattern you've created around the kit any way you like. Experiment!
Quick video recap of this way of creating fills is here: • How To Create Your Own...
And full course of videos about creating fills is here: • How To Create Your Own...
These five examples are great fills in their own right, but also will hopefully act as some inspiration for how you could very easily create your own using the same system.
On the face of it these fills are at the Grade 1 level - they only contain Grade 1-level rhythm vocabulary. But of course as you pick up speed and move around the kit the level of difficulty increases!
Have fun and please let me know if any questions :)
Mike
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[@KoppOlymp]

Oh man I wish I discovered this channel a year ago. Amazing explications and very easy to follow as a beginner. Wish you all the best.

[@khd17]

This is the lad to learn from, thanks Mike! This channel is great for beginners, up to where Mike the prof is! Brilliant Mike!

[@yeungkawo]

They sound so nice!

[@williamdrury-smith3972]

I love this nostalgia. In primary school we used animals so instead of blackcurrant it was “wood pecker” great vid mike!

[@Markroyale]

What a superb lesson. Everything explained so well with some solid examples. Highly motivating, man! Thank you!

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers Mark, much appreciated!

[@YTmrcrisp]

Fascinating techniques thank you

[@tonylomas9773]

What a great lesson. I always find it hard to come up with an interesting new fill. What a cool method. 👍

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers Tony, thanks so much for watching :)

[@bostjanlaba]

Totally love this! Totally!

[@gonzovm2001]

Best lesson ever! I Can't stop thinking about cappucchinos and coffees 😅 Is it any Muffin fill? 😋. Seriously, you have an amazing channel; I just get into drums world, and it is a great help. Thanks a lot!

[@kennethbaker3843]

Well this lesson will help on my timing with fills and getting back to 1 as you should. right now some guys give me a funny look when I go for it. Although I am onlyt a year and 3 or 4 months into this, I have built a nice band, bass, lead, 2nd and two vocalists and of course drums.We have been together about 5 months now. Ken I am so excited.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Good stuff Kenneth, so glad you dig man!

[@rob-442]

Great lesson Mike. I swear I am going to move across the pond just so I can take lessons in person under you! You are the best drum instructor I have ever seen (both in person here on this side of the pond and online). Cheers!

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers Rob!

[@joolsthebass]

Really helpful. Every time i think "hmmm, I really need to work on..." I find that you've got a video that covers it.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers Mojique! Thanks for watching and glad you found this useful 👊🏻

[@ApitChongudomsombut]

Very useful to me. 👍 Many thanks to you Mike. 🙏

[@pulse03_nic51]

very effective and creative using simple and catchy words for drum fillls. It helps me so much thxxxx

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Great man, thanks for letting me know and thanks for watching 👊🏻

[@simonrandle2032]

Love watching these, great fun, thank you so much, gives me so much to practice during lockdown. And when I'm back working and earning (self employed plumber) I will get you a coffee.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers Simon, thanks for watching man!

[@Nandachhetri964]

Very good information I love it and learning every day Thank you

[@estellegiran5609]

Great and fun way to remember fills, thank you very much Mike! ;)

[@conniet3090]

very helpful and so much fun! Thank you from Switzerland :-)

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cool Connie, thanks for watching and glad it was helpful :)

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This is great, Mike. 💪🏼

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So glad I found you so good, just something different, awesome

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Cool man, cheers for watching 👊🏻

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I really like Mr. Mike Barnes. Great teacher.

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🙏🏻🤜🏻

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This is amazing, thank you!

[@hertelden4585]

very good expression

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers! Thanks for watching :)

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Great lesson, Mike. love it!

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers Mike, much appreciated!

[@sierraesquivel]

Very awesome

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers!

[@davegill7614]

Could use lemonade if you are on the drinks theme mike...instead of motorbike...I use tea..coffee..coca cola lemonade blackcurrant 😂

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Yes, "lemonade" is quite commonly used. The only reason I tend not to use that is that I've seen more students get the rhythm confused with "lemonade" than I have with "motorbike"!

[@BandGalaxy]

Or do you let your foot just follow the groove?

[@BandGalaxy]

How do you determine your kick drum pattern you use in those?

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

I was just making it up as I went along! Thanks for watching.

[@BandGalaxy]

@@MikeBarnesDrums They seem so perfectly placed. I'm a couple months into learning the drums & I've been scanning & watching a lot of instructional videos. You have the best teaching style of anyone! You break it down and go very slowly and then build it up and your word association, tea, cappuccino, motorbike, black current etc. is SO helpful! Your kit sounds really good too! Thank you so much!

[@sheetalnair8010]

Do you play on an acoustic kit or a electric one???

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Both! In this video I'm using electronic: Kit: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWqwaWh8eq2lmJI Sounds: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2elZ4VmfNR2qLc How it’s recorded: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKWWmY1pqb5slaM

[@theubergoober]

Love this series Mike! Do you have a pneumonic device for two sixteens followed by a sixteenth rest and then the last sixteen in the beat is played? So 1 e (rest) uh . Thank you!

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Hi man, that’s always a tricky one - there no word that I can think of that really suits that rhythm figure perfectly. Tend to use “bowling ball”, but you still need to say it with the correct rhythm so not ideal! Suggestions welcome! Thanks for watching 👊🏻

[@theubergoober]

@@MikeBarnesDrums oooooooh yeh! That's a good one. Thank you so much!!! I've never been able to come up with anything for it.

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What kind of drumchair is that?

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Hello

[@reenoxrazafinedraine9821]

you don't speak french? it's a great pity ! mo-tor -bike / mo-tor-bike / black-cat / Ca-pu- cci- no i like it thank you !

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

I have A level French! 😂