2 fills to learn, played 2 times across 176 bars. Two fills that share a rhythm and differ only in how they are spread round the toms are one fill here, learned once and orchestrated twice.
On high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 52 out of 100 -- a step up -- and what decides that is how many notes a second it asks for. In the song it lands on bar 7. The exercise loops the figure on its own first, and the one after it puts it back: one bar of rest to count yourself in, the figure, then the landing with the time still running. Getting out of a fill is the half most people never practise.
On high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and what decides that is how much of it falls off the beat.
A fill is rhythm before it is orchestration. The room plays the whole figure on the snare first, puts the feet under it second, and moves it round the toms last -- looped on its own, round and round, until the hands know it. Then it puts the fill back where it lives: a bar of rest to count in, the figure, and the downbeat it lands on, because landing square is the other half of the job.
PRACTISE THESE FILLS →2 distinct fills, played 2 times: bars 6 and 176.
The one at bar 6, at 52 out of 100. 176 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 104 BPM, 4:40 of playing on crash, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.