Fills In Time: Drum Fills & Time-Feel in 15 Lessons

This course is the equivalent of taking drum lessons to sort out your drum fills... except you'll be learning with Alex, member of the iconic group Elbow who has performed live and in the studio with artists as diverse as Dizzee Rascal, Nick Cave, Nas and Paul McCartney.

Each lesson will take a couple of weeks of short, regular practice to complete, at which point you can move on to the next one. In each lesson, Alex shows you how to make simple, everyday drum beats really groove.

He'll also show you how to approach your practise time efficiently and with maximum benefit.
No messing around, no useless flashy stuff, no extra trimmings or fattening side dishes - just good, wholesome, straight-forward lessons for improving timing, groove and feel for everyday use.

At the end of this course, your timing, feel, groove and phrasing will all be improved, giving you an extremely solid basis on which to build your drum playing.

In this course, Alex covers:

• Timing, and locking on to a groove
• Moving around the kit: concepts, short and long fill-ins
• Playing with music
• Tightening up your rhythm and playing faster beats
• Adding triplet phrases to your playing & playing a "Shuffle" feel
• Dynamics
• Using long notes and spaces
• Playing drum rolls

This course is aimed at drummers that would like to improve their timing and groove.

"I believe that all drummers, whatever their level, can learn from this. In putting together these lessons, it wasn't my aim to give the student an exhaustive supply of fills, but rather to demonstrate an approach that can be applied to all drum beats and fills. By the end of the course, the student will have a practical method to good all-round time-playing. It is my intention that the student will use the Fills In Time course as a step-by-step approach to improving and solidifying the timing within section changes, eventually applying it to their own ideas."
-- Alex