HUNTRIX · DRUM FILLS

The drum fills in Takedown

2 fills to learn, played 2 times across 100 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.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
40/100

Bar 92

LOOP · 140 BPM
PLAYED AT BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

On snare and kick. 50 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 93. 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.

Bar 100

LOOP · 140 BPM
PLAYED AT BAR 100

On hi-hat, snare and kick. 73 out of 100 -- demanding -- and what decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

How a fill is practised

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.

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Questions

How many drum fills are in Takedown?

2 distinct fills, played 2 times: bars 92 and 100.

What is the hardest fill in Takedown?

The one at bar 100, at 73 out of 100. 100 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED