Offers advice for adding fills in various styles of music and includes exercises and counting tips to improve stick control and precision.

Essential Drum Fills is a collection of fills that Peter Erskine has enjoyed hearing and /or playing over the years. The book includes over 500 drum fills in a variety of styles and ensembles, as well as multiple examples, transcriptions and drum charts. Comes with online audio demonstrations and play-alongs. Music PDF files are also included.

Have you ever heard an awesome drum fill and found yourself air-drumming it out? Odds are after mastering this book you'll be able to play it! This book breaks down and explores legendary rock drum fills from groups like Led Zeppelin, the Who, Rush, Nirvana, Dream Theater, Blink 182, Tool, the Mars Volta and more, and teaches the tools and ideas to create your own. All examples are presented in standard drum notation as well as on the accompanying audio.

Designed to assist you in developing a real-world vocabulary of drum fills as played by top professional drummers in every style, Filling in the Grooves by Jim Toscano covers all the fills drummers ask about: odd groupings, filling over the barline, hand-foot combinations, double-bass fills, groupings, stylistic fills, and much more. In addition, the book dissects legendary fills played by the giants of the drums, including Billy Cobham, Phil Collins, Stewart Copeland, Steve Gadd, Gavin Harrison, Neil Peart, Simon Phillips, Jeff Porcaro, Tony Williams and more. Included are downloadable digital files containing nine play-along tracks and audio and video demonstrations of nearly every example in the book.

The purpose of this book is to offer drummers of all levels a chance to learn how to play fills with an easy and efficient way. This book is divided to two separate parts: The first part is directed towards beginning drummers. This section is concentrated in teaching how to build practical fills from many different note patterns and rhythms, that fit specific style. The second part teaches how to apply rudiments with fills. This section is designed to familiarize the student with all the basic rudiments, such as Diddle-rudiments, Rolls, Flams and Drags. The fills in this book has also been utilized in the drumming textbook “Big Book Of Drumming”.

Learn how to play 238 of the worlds Most Famous & Popular Drum Fills, Breaks, Licks and Solos, performed by the biggest names in drumming. Never before has there been a LARGER collection of Famous Drum Fills taught anywhere else before. This unique and extensive 258 PAGE book is an Easy to Follow, Step-by-Step Guide revealing how to play 100's of the worlds COOLEST fills from over 180 Songs! Just think of all the legendary drum licks available at YOUR finger tips! A powerful resource that drummers like yourself can use to vastly expand your drumming vocabulary, dip in and out of when you want to learn your favourite licks, or just simply want something new and FUN to practice. This book will give you YEARS of drumming ideas and inspiration! BOOK STRUCTURE * 238 Famous & Popular Drum Fills! * 188 Classic Songs! * 96 Drumming Legends! * 258 Pages of Lessons! Each individual drum fill features its own specific Drum Lesson teaching you not only WHAT to play, but HOW to play it too. Each lesson also includes extra notation, suggestions and practice tips where required. Check out just SOME of the songs found in this book below... 1. Achilles Last Stand 2. Africa 3. Aja 4. All Right Now 5. All The Small Things 6. Always 7. Angels Of Death 8. Apocalypse Please 9. Assassin 10. Avon 11. Baba O'Riley 12. Back In The USSR 13. Bargain 14. Basket Case 15. Behind Blue Eyes 16. Black Dog 17. Black Night 18. Blaze Of Glory 19. Blinded in Chains 20. Blood On The Ground 21. Blue Monday 22. Born To Be Wild 23. Brick House 24. Bullet In Your Head Rage 25. Bullet The Blue Sky 26. Cars 27. Chameleon 28. China Girl 29. Chuck E's In Love 30. Come Together 31. Dani California 32. Dark Eternal Night, The 33. Davidian 34. Day In The Life, A 35. Dazed And Confused 36. Diamonds and Pearls 37. Digital Bath 38. Digital Man 39. Don't Ask Me Why 40. Don't Look Back In Anger 41. Don't Speak 42. Don't You Forget About Me 43. Drive In Drive Out 44. Drop Dead Legs 45. Drum Also Waltzes, The 46. Duality 47. Dyer Mak'er 48. Every Breath You Take 49. Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 50. Exit Music For A Film 51. Fat Bottom Girls 52. Fear Of A Broken Planet 53. Final Countdown 54. Fire 55. Fireball 56. First Date 57. Firth Of Fifth 58. Fool In The Rain 59. For Whom The Bell Tolls 60. Forgotten 61. Get Off My Cloud 62. Gimme All Your Lovin' 63. Give It Away 64. Good Old Music 65. Good Times Bad Times 66. Goodbye 67. Grudge, The 68. Head Over Heels 69. Heart Of The Sunrise 70. Heir Apparent 71. Helicopter 72. Hella Good 73. Hey Joe 74. Hey Jude 75. Highway Star 76. Hocus Pocus 77. Hold The Line 78. Honky Tonk Woman 79. Honour Thy Father 80. In Bloom 81. In The Air Tonight 82. Instant Karma 83. Invisible Man, The 84. Iron Man 85. It's The End Of The World 86. It's The Same Old Song 87. Jack & Diane 88. Jamie's Cryin' 89. Jammin' 90. Josie 91. Judith 92. Just Like Starting Over 93. Kashmir 94. La Grange 95. La Villa Strangiato 96. Learn To Fly 97. The Lemon Song 98. Little Lies 99. Little Wing 100. Living On A Prayer 101. London Calling 102. Lounge Fly 103. Love 104. Man In A Suitcase 105. Manic Depression 106. Metalingus 107. Minerva 108. Misty Mountain Hop 109. Misunderstood 110. Moby Dick 111. Money For Nothing 112. Murder By Numbers 113. My Generation 114. My Own Summer 115. Neon Moonlight 116. Never Enough 117. Next Year 118. Nightmare 119. No One Knows 120. No Quarter 121. Of Wolf And Man 122. One More Red Nightmare 123. Open Secrets 124. Painkiller 125. Paint It Black 126. Parabola 127. Passenger 128. Peaches En Regalia 129. People Of The Sun 130. Pretty Noose 131. Pretty Visitors 132. Pure and Easy 133. Quiet 134. Rain 135. Rat Salad 136. Revealing Science Of God, The 137. Rock With You 138. Root Down 139. Rosanna 140. Ruin

The Art of Transcribing is a book that makes transcribing for the drum set as easy as 1-2-3. Here is how it works:1) Learn one rhythm at a time (every variation of 16th notes and 8th note triplets are covered).2) Transcribe the beats and fills from the CD on to the blank music paper that is provided.3) Check your accuracy by viewing the answers in the back of the book.This book can be used for self study (as explained above) or tailored by a teacher to be compatible for drummers of all levels. for example, the teacher can play the beats live or program a drum machine. This will allow the teacher to slow down the tempo for beginning students and also allow the teacher to speed up the tempo for intermediate and advanced students. The Art of Transcribing is two books in one. Not only will this book teach you skills necessary to transcribe, it will also give you over 200 beats and fills to play!