This great drum fills beauty lies in it’s simplicity and the fact that it moves into swung triplets after the chug-chug of the straight verse. This next drum fill demonstrates how Lars plays in a kind of swing style for each drum break. “ For Whom The Bell Tolls” – Great Drum Fill ( 2:14 Album Version) This sixteenth note triplet lick starts on the downbeat of beats 1 and 3 and ends, with the bass drum, on the ‘+’s.Ī simple snare and crash is played in unison on beats 2 and 4. It involves four notes played smoothly, one after each other and moving around the drums, starting on the snare, then the high tom then the floor tom, before ending with the bass drum. Lars plays a classic rock style drum fill, played by many great drummers before such as Bonham, Gadd, Grohl and many many more. They all involve triplets and “swung” eighth notes in some way. The first drum fill above occurs at 1:25 after a bar of standard quarter note rock.Īll of the drum fill breaks that Lars plays in this song have an element of “ Swing” to them. “ For Whom The Bell Tolls” – Great Drum Fill ( 1:25 Album Version) View the video on YouTube HERE – Learn How To Play Drums For Whom The Bell Tolls Video Drum Lesson (Metallica & Lars Ulrich) “ For Whom The Bell Tolls” – Free Video Drum Lesson If you have any of your own suggestions for drum fills that I might have missed then please email me. The classic and very popular “ Fa-De-La-Dump” drum fill is also explored in greater detail, so make sure to watch until the end of the video drum lesson for that!įor many other famous and favourite drum fills, check out the Greatest Drum Fills list by clicking here. Later in the video drum lesson I show you how to develop Lar’s drum fill ideas into new and exciting drum licks and fill-ins. We will be looking at each of these fun licks in turn.

This song features four great and popular drum fills. This time, as voted for on my Facebook page here, the song is “ For Whom The Bell Tolls” by Metallica and drummed by the great Lars Ulrich. In this free drum lesson I’m taking another song from the Top Best 350 Drum Fills Of All Time and working out how to play the great drum fills it contains.

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