Drum Fills

narrator · Post by **narrator** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:50 pm

Anyone know any good packs or resources for fills?

Just looking for a few decent incidentals to have coming in ever 16 bars or so..

fanks..

serox · Post by **serox** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 3:56 pm

Avoid packs. Use random sounds with weird FX, dist and filters spring to mind.

Get knocks, clicks, foot steps and shit like that. mix them low with some hats. They are to help just fill in the spaces between the kick an the snare and I find mixing them low works best so they dont stand out. Mix them up tho, mix some low and some higher to give some texture and mess around with velocity changes and panning. Small changes every couple of bars help to keep it interesting.

-[2]DAY_- · Post by **-[2]DAY_-** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:02 pm

dig thru some old r&b/soul/funk records, lots of bare drum fills with loads of character... u could chop/time stretch/tune em to fit the context

Assassin · Post by **Assassin** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:07 pm

Two quality bits of advice there.

filthy_ · Post by **filthy_** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:30 pm

write your own fills.

RmoniK · Post by **RmoniK** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:46 pm

drum on your desk and program what you drum

tripwire22 · Post by **tripwire22** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:54 pm

filthy_ wrote:write your own fills.

samkablaam · Post by **samkablaam** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:30 pm

its hard to program a fill on anything other than snare and make it sound good. i would sample something. or do what someone else said and fx it up

narrator · Post by **narrator** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:54 pm

I'm pretty much looking for something to have about 3 times in a track. i dont think i'm gonna spend a shit load of time goin through folders looking for the perfect hits.

even the "Big guys" wouldnt bother their arse that much..
sure the start of the Funtcase remix of Rise of the idiots is loop number 1 in the Deadmau5 XFER sample pack..

howiegroove · Post by **howiegroove** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:13 pm

a good idea to help you out with your fill writing would be (if you had ableton live) to drag an audio fill from a sample pack. Extract the groove. Then take the groove file and drag it into an empty midi clip file. Viola! You have the timing and hits for a drum fill. You can replace those midi notes with your drum sounds. This is a good way to see how some fills are programmed.

Stab Master Arson · Post by **Stab Master Arson** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 7:24 pm

howiegroove wrote:a good idea to help you out with your fill writing would be (if you had ableton live) to drag an audio fill from a sample pack. Extract the groove. Then take the groove file and drag it into an empty midi clip file. Viola! You have the timing and hits for a drum fill. You can replace those midi notes with your drum sounds. This is a good way to see how some fills are programmed.

thats a fucking great idea man, I'm just learning about this groove stuff now, I didn't realize you could do that. I'm gonna go try it. Thanks!

benjam · Post by **benjam** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:01 pm

Check out drum tabs on google you might get some ideas

-[2]DAY_- · Post by **-[2]DAY_-** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:24 pm

howiegroove wrote: Viola!

i thought we wuz talkin drums here

Recessive Trait · Post by **Recessive Trait** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 9:54 pm

dude seriously. write your own g.d. fills.

DannyDubstep · Post by **DannyDubstep** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:46 pm

Fills are so fun to make and devise that it'd be a shame to take em out of a pack.
Have a listen to some good hardcore/metal bands... for example As Blood Runs Black... [bare with me metal haters.]
Because they are shot through with sick fills.

I'm a drummer so I borrowed my mates electric drum kit and set a click track to 140 and just jammed around for 10 minutes. Still yet to use the midi file but yeah.

RmoniK · Post by **RmoniK** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:11 pm

DannyDubstep wrote:Fills are so fun to make and devise that it'd be a shame to take em out of a pack.
Have a listen to some good hardcore/metal bands... for example As Blood Runs Black... [bare with me metal haters.]
Because they are shot through with sick fills.

I'm a drummer so I borrowed my mates electric drum kit and set a click track to 140 and just jammed around for 10 minutes. Still yet to use the midi file but yeah.

Hrmmm; I agree with the metalcore thingies, but there are way better bands for drumming inspiration than As Blood Runs Black. Especially for dubstep. Since dubstep doesn't have a lot of fast rolls, double bass fills and blast beats, i wouldn't recommend it. I have found a lot of my drumming inspiration in Isis. They are chilled, but real genious.

RandoRando · Post by **RandoRando** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:29 am

howiegroove wrote:a good idea to help you out with your fill writing would be (if you had ableton live) to drag an audio fill from a sample pack. Extract the groove. Then take the groove file and drag it into an empty midi clip file. Viola! You have the timing and hits for a drum fill. You can replace those midi notes with your drum sounds. This is a good way to see how some fills are programmed.

is this Possible in fl studio 8 ?????????????????

DannyDubstep · Post by **DannyDubstep** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 4:41 pm

RandoRando wrote:is this Possible in fl studio 8 ?????????????????

Yes it is.

Easy tiger.

s3f · Post by **s3f** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:35 pm

DannyDubstep wrote:
RandoRando wrote:is this Possible in fl studio 8 ?????????????????
Yes it is. Easy tiger.

would you mind sharing how?

tripwire22 · Post by **tripwire22** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 6:00 pm

s3f wrote:
DannyDubstep wrote:
RandoRando wrote:is this Possible in fl studio 8 ?????????????????
Yes it is. Easy tiger.
would you mind sharing how?

if u got FL can u not just load the fill into slicex then export the thing as a midi file?

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