3 Great Drum Fills Using Drags and Four-Stroke Ruffs

Great rudiments from Trinity Grade 2. These are amazing skill-builders in their own right, but students often ask if you can use them on the kit to make music. Yes you definitely can! Here’s just 3 examples of drum fills using the drag and four-stroke ruff. These fills are at the Grade 2/3 level.

Sheet music for these fills is here (reverse the sticking for left-handers): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vr2k...

Rudiments are explained here…

Drags:    • One Minute Drum Lesson - The Drag  

Four-Stroke Ruff:    • One Minute Drum Lesson - The Four Str...  

Have fun and please let me know if any questions :)

Mike


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