Drum Lesson 3: More Triplet Gospel Fills

Heres a lick I learnt by the drummer Stixx from Detroit. Its a 9 note phrase thats played over 16th note Triplets. I put my own little spin on it at the end.
Enjoy

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• Sam
• Nadel
• Drums
• Drumming
• Funk
• Gospel
• Mike
• Johnston
• Stixx
• Linear
• Triplets
• Fill
• Groove

[mikeroxannandrew]

I appreciate the way you break your video down; It makes it a lot easier to understand. However, I am a little confused. On the first roll, using just the snare and bass, you would count it like this?

(snare) 1-te-tah, 2

(bass) -te-tah

(snare) 3-te

(bass) -tah

am I counting this right? if so, how many times through do I count it. If I count it right then its only 3/4 of a measure. Thanx for your time

[samnadel]

@mikeroxannandrew Hey. You need to think of it in 16th note triplets instead of 'normal' 8th note triplets. so instead of 1-te-tah 2-te-tah etc it would be 1-te-tah &-te-tah 2-te-tah &-te-tah (all the way up to four). 16th note triplets have 24 notes in a bar. That means if the phrase is 9 notes long you can fit 2 full repetitions followed by 6 notes to finish (in this case its RLRLFF). it sounds alot more complicated than it actually is!

[alloneword154]

could this be counted as a 9 stroke roll for just one bar??

[samnadel]

a 9 stroke roll would be RR LL RR LL R

i.e. 2 sets of doubles followed by a single. This lick is a combination of singles and feet.

[fulgoretube]

@mikeroxannandrew hey the rudiment is this S=snare B= bassdrum, S S S S B B S S B, xD

[allanpinewood84]

Nice lick man... im pretty Louis Styx newsome is from Toledo oh though

[17drumhead]

Awesome playing dude, great clear explanation of a great lick! Keep em' comin'!

[marcojazzdrum]

thamks man...

[Jesse4ManBob]

nice bro, now all you need to do is play it in church

[drumsmut]

very nice!!!

[thebear01234]

One thing also that you can do is play the first time through on the snare and the second on the toms, or visa versa. Adds a little verity. :)

[sandstonio]

I love your patient and careful demeanor. Thanks for helping me improve my drumming.