Rock Drum Fills - Mansaku Kimura

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Looking to expand your vocabulary of fills beyond the same handful of go-to phrases? On this DVD, drummer Mansaku Kimura demonstrates over 230 fills for rock, funk, blues and Latin styles of drumming. Every fill is shown within the context of a full song, so you hear and understand how it actually sits with the groove rather than just how it sounds in isolation.

The lessons cover fills for straight eighth beats, bounce eighth beats, straight sixteenth beats, bounce sixteenth beats, triplets, bossa nova, samba, three-beat bounce, five-beat rock, and seven-beat rock — a broad enough range to be useful whether you mostly play straight rock grooves or want to get comfortable with odd meters and Latin feels.

Beyond the instructional segments, Mansaku uses two live performances by his own band, PRISM, to show how many of these fills work in a real musical setting. A variety of camera angles let you see precisely how each fill is performed, and the disc includes a .pdf music booklet notating each song with the fills highlighted — handy to have open while you practice.

A solid pick if you already have the basics down and want to build a bigger library of fills for live playing and the studio, or if you want to get more comfortable with less common time feels without losing the groove.

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