Drum Fills

[t-rave]

Listen to Stewart Copeland if you need a refreshing groove...especially fills , snare and hi hat work!

 

[MartijnPaauwe]

Danny Carey still stays one of my favourite drummers all time.
More interesting drummers :
-Stef Broks from Textures
-Arien van Weesenbeek when he played in God Dethroned, too bad now he is in Epica, mweeh.

And check out everything there is, drummers like Steve Gadd, John Bonham, Ian Paice, Neil Peart will show you how drumming is done

 

[Youpimatin]

Non Metal Drummers but Drumgods (listen to those fills and grooves !!) : Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, John Bonham and Phil Collins.

 

[BrettT]

Danny from Intronaut. Here's a vid of him and Joe, the bassist, rehearsing. One of the best rhythm sections in heavy music:

 

[gorath23]

Nick Barker from Paradise Lost, I just love his fills.

 

[Metaltastic]

Nick Barker plays in Paradise Lost now!?!?!? Or is it a different Nick Barker from the one who was in Cradle of Filth, Dimmu, Old Man's Child, etc.?

 

[Djabthrash]

Listen to Stewart Copeland if you need a refreshing groove...especially fills , snare and hi hat work!

Big time

 

[Djabthrash]

Nick Barker plays in Paradise Lost now!?!?!? Or is it a different Nick Barker from the one who was in Cradle of Filth, Dimmu, Old Man's Child, etc.?

Exact same thing came through my mind.

 

[Metaltastic]

Oh, and how could I forget - MARTIN AXENROT. Dude's my dude for realz

 

[PortionThief]

What did you check (band/album/videos...) ?

Some videos on youtube and Misery Index.

 

[Djabthrash]

Sorry for old thread resurrection, but i've found out lately that drum fills were my weakest point in drums programming.

I know how to find the basic good idea for a drum fill, i also know how to make a programmed drums pattern sound realistic, but i always seem to miss the last 10% that can make a drum fill sound like a drum fill a great drummer would play. For instance i always struggle to know where i should put kick hits (if those are needed for the fill), cymbal/hi hat hits, and how to start/end the fill properly, even if i've been watching tons of drumming videos before (without concentrating on that drum fills aspect though).

I've been checking out superior 2 built-in drum fills MIDI grooves and it helped me a lot. Being able to play it back at normal speed as well as half speed, and also solo the kit elements is key to understand how to make a drum fill sound good.
Not to mention the fact that you're being able to see your kit and the elements being hit while the groove is playing.
I'm more interested in the finesse/groove/taste-involving kind of fills, i mean jazz/rock kind of fills, more than your typical machine gun fast tom roll kind of feel (which works in some cases of course, but is easier to grasp and replicate through programming IMO).
This is kind of obvious also, but using the hi hat pedal to keep time is one of those things that drummers do.

So thanks Toontrack

 

[mstone564]

While I've always been a fanboy of this band, and don't know too much about drums, I'd say Blake Richardson of BTBAM has some pretty interesting fills and grooves.

 

[metalfanat1c]

I'll third (or fourth) Martin Lopez.

 

[Jevil]

Or you can buy midi kits and bundles recorded by pros.

 

[Audiosprite]

learn the drums. :Spin:

 

[Revson]

Blake Richardson of BTBAM.

Pt. 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHVDFNKNQBk

pt. 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orTuN27UafQ&feature=related

 

[J-Mac]

Rudiments always make for good fills - learn those and youre set. Also, accenting with the kickdrum can add a tonne to a fill. In my opinion though, as a drummer, it's always best to integrate the fills into the songs with the guitars in a way that makes them sound like they belong - nothing worse than a bunch of random ass tom fills unless you want to sound like The Who... Work with the guitarist to make transitions gel and have the fills compliment the guitars or vice versa. A fill for the sake of a fill is a waste of space.

 

[Djabthrash]

Listen to a not so well known drummer outside of gospel circles but actually phenomenal metal drummer named Dave Elitch. He played in daughters of mara, my old band sinphony (more straightforward), and the devils gift record i engineered last year.

Really sick out of left field drumming for metal.

This video speaks for himself indeed :

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeYUQqDhL9E&feature=share[/ame]

And also Dirk VerBueren of soilwork. Hes absolutely one of the best in metal period

what else ?