Fills

Fills · 55–150 BPM

You trade: one bar of normal groove, one bar of fill. The fill walks down the kit in order so you always know where your hands are going next.

Goal: Confident fills with a clean re-entry

Fills · 55–140 BPM

A repeating group of three: kick, then hand, then hand. Because a bar of 16ths is 16 notes and the group is 3 notes long, the pattern shifts every bar — which is why it sounds clever.

Goal: Modern linear fill vocabulary

Fills · 55–150 BPM

Composed fills are written once and played the same way every night. This is the opposite of improvising: you decide the notes once and then repeat them exactly.

Goal: Repeatable, song-worthy fills

Fills · 50–140 BPM

A written-out fill so there is no guessing. Bar 1 you keep a simple hand groove, bar 2 you play a fill that walks snare to Tom 1 to Tom 2 to floor tom and lands on a crash.

Goal: Fills that travel and resolve, no feet required

Fills · 55–150 BPM

The most common fill shape in music: a quick phrase across the toms right before the bar ends, then a big crash-plus-kick landing exactly on beat 1 of the new bar to mark the arrival.

Goal: Confident, punchy fill endings that mark the new bar clearly