Creating Short, Cool Drum Fills On Beat 4! - Drums For Beginners

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

This vid is all about playing simple and effective short drum fills, starting on beat 4 of the bar. These are some seriously real-world drum fills that I'd use over and over again on a gig! Notation here (channel members): www.buymeacoffee.com/mikebarnesdrums/notation-and-practice-along-for-simple-cool-drum-fills-on-beat-4-vid If you’ve enjoyed these videos or found them useful, please consider supporting my channel via my “Buy Me A Coffee” page here: www.buymeacoffee.com/mikebarnesdrums, where you can support or sign up as a monthly member. As a channel member, you get a complimentary Zoom session as well a personalized practice plan and lots of other benefits - including priority requests for videos on this channel, access to Zoom lessons, full lesson breakdown videos of drum covers and full notation to accompany tutorial videos on the channel. Recent interview I did with Taryn Arnold from Buy Me A Coffee about the amazing way this channel is supported by it’s viewers: kzbin.info/www/bejne/joitoYx9gNVrqZI

[@BandGalaxy]

This is awesome! Thank you SO much. I'm 67 & just started this drumming venture. This is the most helpful video of all I've watched. You have a great teaching style!! 👍👍👍

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Great! So glad you dig, thank you for watching :)

[@robgoodman302]

He is good and glad to hear I'm not alone I'm also 67 and just started. Actually started at 66 on my own got overwhelmed with all on you tube so signed for in person lessons at guitar center benn at it 2 months and have seen a difference so good luck on your journey.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

My oldest student was 84 when he started, still playing at 90. Both of you are no age! In any case, age in itself is simply and emphatically NOT the variable of success - application, effort and willingness to do the work and the most important factors by far influencing success/happiness in this game (and most other games too IMO). Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@charlessiale3402]

So easy and enjoyable to follow.

[@Thebeautifulmia]

Super first video I understand the fills

[@docallenlin]

great for the rookie of drum. thank you

[@Nicholas-hu3km]

Love your vids man so effective and easy to follow thanks

[@richardsmith6194]

Just learned more in the last 20 minutes than i have in two years. You are a great teacher Mike

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers Richard! Much appreciated and so glad you dig :)

[@treffohnirtak8759]

So well explained, so helpful! Thank you from a total beginner!

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers! 🙏🏻👊🏻

[@user-dt7pl1tw4u]

Im new with the drums. You can't teach better than this. You are amazing.

[@kevindobbertien2257]

This is by far the best video I've seen on beginner drum fills! This is exactly what I've been needing! Thank you so much!

[@paddy4710]

This tutorial just made my day! Thanks Mike! So much fun whilst quickly learning a load of awsome sounding fills!

[@Stew37i]

Grade 3 here and really needed a nice backing track I can use to jam along to using a variety of beats, thank you! Loved the fills.

[@wannabeadrummer]

Great stuff again Mike, very helpful 👍

[@danyloveretennikov7861]

Amazing video, gives a lot of inspiration to beginner. Love vibe of grooving and doing fills in time. Keep up the great content! Maybe some fill video with stuff like giving some showcase of the most popular fills in modern pop/rock music to show some great options for 1beat/2beat/4beat fills?

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cool! Playlist of famous fills here: kzbin.info/aero/PLcfoni8UPb9ozblSynqvQMFoFNoTLhGCO Thanks for watching :)

[@craftylimey]

I am a beginner and find your method of teaching is the best on you tube. Thanks for donating your time to helping others who maybe can’t afford private lessons.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers! 🙏🏻

[@craftylimey]

@@MikeBarnesDrums Mike I couldn’t find the link to the jamming track. Did you link it?

[@suminshizzles6951]

I hear the 4 and a in all sorts of songs. It sounds nice and is a cool turn around.

[@orvossyistvan5223]

Good one as usual!

[@albertomedrano1886]

Very effective!

[@alzmanfield3659]

As a learner. Loving your content.. thanks man 👊

[@Submarine_2010]

One if my favourite is just 2 crotchet beats on the snare- not a flam, and it comes after beat four in between the next bar sort of. I don’t know how to say it but I hope you know what I mean

[@SuzanneVictoria42]

I think I know what you mean (although I think it would be 2 semiquavers on + a) I am also a fan of the really short drum fill. It sounds cool.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cool, yep can't be crotchets - could be semi-quavers or perhaps the last two of a set of eighth note triplets. Cheers!

[@Leyla.E.]

I love it...something simple but sounds amazing , super fill and love the beat

[@jimmyjones5220]

I think you have the best teaching method. I just happened to see your site last week, and I've been hooked ever since. good visual setup, it's like being there live, easy to see everything. also very good tips on playing the song you are teaching. absolutely a great way to learn drums.***********

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers Jimmy! V much appreciate it and so glad you dig 🙏🏻👊🏻

[@bonnieking5493]

Wonderful. Wonderful to help me spice up my beginner drumming. Thanks

[@andrew007s]

Amazing explanation! Please make more like this. I would love to learn more about fills. Willing to buy a lesson.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers for watching Andrew - playlist of drum fill stuff here: kzbin.info/aero/PLcfoni8UPb9q21HMRB9fqGUhffLOZG-pc

[@drumsbymarkharrison]

I like to do this method ever since your video months ago and still use tea, coffee and cucumber also

[@tellitlikeitis5856]

Mr. Mike Barnes, an absolutely fantastic and superior lesson. Beat 4 fill variations. Well explained, shown how to count out and play the rythms. Thanks so much bro for your hard work and sharing your knowledge and skills with the world wide drumming community regardless of where anyone is at in their skill level. Brilliant bro! Brilliant!

[@nelsonlourenco3781]

You sound such a nice person that it is almost annoying! :) thanks for sharing.❤

[@sallyhubert9027]

Thanks Mike, really useful & great to play along too.

[@daztastic147]

Great vid, funny you mention the snare and crash, I’ve found over the last year or so that I go into almost every drum fill with a snare and crash, I find that crash & snare accent always brings the fill to life just before it happens, hard thing to explain but I’ve found I do it all the time now! Oh and I’ve found using fills which actually include the hi-hat can be really good when used in the right song, I used one all the way through the cover of Ordinary World by Duran Duran and it fits the song beautifully! 🎵🎶👍

[@roseochieng7707]

It's Awesome, what about playing a 24 or16 beat on a drum

[@Vicky-hk3on]

Love this! Thank you Mike 😊 🙏🏻

[@ianclarke5273]

Great vid.. I guess you could do this in between bars too?

[@philippschrodi8112]

Super! Thank you

[@charlesrastan5481]

Mike, thank you for this video. It’s really encouraging for beginners/intermediates like myself. It shows that simple fills can be very effective and fit in well with the music. Talking of which, is that mellow funk backing track available to channel members? Thanks again.

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers! Backing track was just from KZbin I believe.

[@jeffhale713]

Thank you Mike. I cant seem to find that particular backing track. Could you please give me the link. Cheers

[@MrJlourens]

nice Mike

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

👊🏻

[@TonyMontana-yj6rx]

Four on the floor

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z32aomeVd7lmprs&pp=ygUjbWlrZSBiYXJuZXMgZHJ1c20gZm91ciBvbiB0aGUgZmxvb3I%3D

[@gerardmenking5206]

Hi Mike. Can you put up that link to the jamming backing tracks please.

[@peteskyrunner4845]

I like the idea of the words containing the relevant syllables. So you could have motorbike blackcurrant on beat three, would that work? That's a good way to remember them. You just got a new subscriber :-)

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers Pete! Yeah that'd work. Check this out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hp6mgmCJbMh6nZo

[@roseochieng7707]

What about playing drops on a drum during worship songs

[@1atimen]

Muito bom! 🤟 No quarto tempo do quarto compasso vc faz uma virada diferente, no começo tem que ficar contando os tempos e os compassos e depois fica automático essa contagem?

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Yes, I’d say when beginning it’s a good idea to count the beats, then as you say it becomes automatic soon enough with repetition. Thanks for watching :)

[@1atimen]

@@MikeBarnesDrums Bom dia, não querendo abusar da sua bondade, então quando for 4/4 tem que seguir esse padrão, no quarto compasso faz uma virada independente de qual tempo irá acontecer aí fica uma música bem tocada é isso, não sei se me entendeu?

[@lobbyrobby]

Great stuff as always. Here's a problem I have. I'll try starting slow but for some reason my beat keeps getting faster and faster. As a beginner that's not helping me. Then I start getting nervous and tensing up which isn't a good thing. Why does my body automatically start speeding up?

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Practice with a metronome and train your internal clock!: kzbin.info/www/bejne/imLdnGOueNStf7Mfeature=shared

[@gushutchinson8758]

Do you want me to only practise fills after 4(?)bars? or is OK to practice fills on EVERY 4th beat? IS that a bad habit to get into? Then possibly difficult to get out of?.. You want me playing the groove rock steady as priority and too many fills might throw me off the pulse?!

[@cwks3510]

what is the backing track song and where to find it? Thanks and great lesson!

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Pretty sure this was just on KZbin, can't find the exact one used here just now, but type in "drumless funk" and you'll get some good ones! Cheers.

[@joffwarren]

It's called Jamin Smooth Funk

[@Stew37i]

Hi Mike, which Smooth Funk one is this from the Jammin channel?

[@misterlizard]

I like how much fun you are having (...and learning; I will go and hit things now. blackcurrant. motorbike.)

[@aap12341234]

Where can I find the jamming on Spotify?

[@claudioborrega1310]

I’m a beginner and do you have a set of tutorials

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Hi Claudio, yeah! - kzbin.info/aero/PLcfoni8UPb9pMuQTX9H1rbKnFCW7x7xXD

[@jimgibbs5316]

Mike, love your You Tube page! Is there a way to join your page via US dollars? Your energy is infectious! Thank you! Jim

[@MikeBarnesDrums]

Cheers Jim! Much appreciated and thanks for watching - so glad if you found it useful. And yes, it automatically exchanges to dollars I believe 👊🏻

[@lobbyrobby]

You just can't help from doing neat stuff on the hi hat while teaching us beginner's, can you? haha

[@paulypj]

Invaluable video. Thanks man. Just started drums (see my latest vid). Cheers ears!