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No. 6 Posted on Sep 27, 2012 1:02 AM
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knightcrawler wrote:
Agreed. Fills will come naturally, but musically.
I think that depends on what you mean by “natural”.
At my ability level at least, patience certainly pays off. Things that I simply couldn’t do a couple of years ago are now a matter of practising for a reasonably short period, whereas I couldn’t master them however many hours I tried to force them into my brain. I’m talking about rudiments, fills and all kinds of combinations of all four limbs. As I have gained in competence and confidence in what I already did, the ability to tackle the harder stuff seems to have come along without my worrying over my difficulties. Was that natural? Possibly.
When it comes to playing fills at a gig, I may well deviate from what I had in mind beforehand. I might occasionally ad lib quite a lot. However, what I do play I will already know I can play – even if I haven’t put the exact fills or other combinations together before . Their component-parts will come from my “library” of rudiments - both “official” and personal. They will have been well practised, and will rarely be completely off the top of my head. That just invites stumbles such as being caught on the wrong hand when moving to the next drum, cymbal, etc. I wouldn’t say that these combinations come naturally.
Perhaps it takes a certain amount of natural ability –aptitude – to be able to get to do these things at all, but I don’t think that means that fills come naturally. In my case, anyway, they come from practice.
If there are any prodigies out there who can do the completely-unthought-of at will, then I kneel before them.
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