Today we looked into R'n'B fills or "Gospel fills" as they're more commonly known as. basically they're a rendition of hands and feet displacements, combos of the bass drum and any other part of the drum kit (so rack toms, snare, cymbals, hats etc.) anything such as the sample below...
Below is a short clip of me trying out a gospel fill, it's not the best, but I guess we all have to start somewhere and it's definitely something I need to practise.
There are a mass variety of different variations of this type of fill, different ways of playing it, for example; how you can play the bass part, as there will be from singles up to quadruple hits from the bass drum you can rather use a double bass pedal to complete this or you can use whatever foot technique so like swivel technique, or heel and toe technique or the sliding technique.
You can play various number of notes with rather hands or feet, so you could have a mix of 2's and 4's- 4 hits with hands and 2 hits with fee, or 4 hits with both, or you can play a mix of 3's and 2's - (this type of feel sounds like its going out of time but falls back in time near the end).
