Greetings!
Today I bring you three easy sounding fills for purdie shuffles, “that sound hard”.
The whole “easy thing that sounds hard” thing isn’t usually my jam, but in this case “hard” really means “interesting”.
The usual fills we pull out in triplet or sextuplet situations are boring for a couple of reasons: predictable phrasing, and predictable orchestration. I like to begin a lot of my fills on the snare and hats, and practice orchestrating them creatively, so that’s the genesis of these 3.
The first 2 are just specific patterns you can play on various parts of the kit, or on various parts of the beat…
…but the third is more like “glue” - just a simple pattern to allow combinations of the previous two. I know once you mess with these a little, you’ll start having fun and making some new shapes.
Hope you enjoy!