Yer favourite "drum fill"? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I like the little set ups that Barriemore Barlow did between the verses in the Tull song Hunting Girl.

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Phil Collin's legendary drum entrance on "Something in the Air Tonight".
Bonham during the intro on "Good Times Bad Times"
Nick Mason on "Sheep"

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Chester Thompson's big fill in Trouble Commin Everyday from Zappa's Roxy and Elsewhere.

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First one that came to mind was Peart on Natural Science right before the guitar solo in the middle section.

What about CCR's I've Heard It Thru the Grapevine, it has nice long drum solo, even it's not prog music (isn't it ?)

or second thing, In Gaga Da Vida, or the name is something like that. By Iron Butterfly.

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How about Bill Bruford's fill that is, basically, the melody for the tune Beelzebub?

Or Billy Cobham's fill in the intro to Taurian Matador?

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MartyMcFly89 wrote:

I'm not sure about the name, but Nick Mason definitely did something on some Pink Floyd works.

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I have always liked...um...its in ELP's 3rd Impression. After the instrumental section, Palmer does a wonderful fill to slow the whole band down for " Rejoice glory is ours............" Tongue

Edited by Snow Dog - June 09 2009 at 04:11

Hi,

Hard to beat Bonzo's fills and Moonie's fills ... it really is ... you can look back to "Who Are You" and you can easily see one of the very best rock drummers ever ...

The trick to these fills, I always thought, is to let go of the clock in the music ... and only concern yourself with filling in the space ... you can always come back to the clock whenever you have had enough of the fills ... and this is one of the worst things in most drum solos ... most drummers are araid to let go of the time-clock ... and heck if all I wanted for my music was a metronome, why the fudge would I get me a drummer boy?

Nick Mason is pretty good too ... check out the film "Live in Pompei" and you can really see it well.

I also like Peter Leopold from Amon Duul 2 ... involved in really difficult music that is not chuckberry minded and the way he mixes and matches things in Dance of the Lemmings and Yeti, and then Wolf City ... are too precious ... and you really should listen to that massive break and fill in "Apocalyptic Bore" ... it is the best of all of them in rock ... but yeah ... I love Bonzo's a lot.

Also important, is side 1 of Gong's You ... Pierre Moerlin's drumming in those two long cuts is almost insane ... he's all over the place and you wonder where the time is ... it's in zen somewhere and doesn't exist and to me, that is the only way that song sounds good ... and his breaks with Steve Hillage are even better on the way to A sprinkling of flowers. Gong never ever ever sounded half as good with anyone else drumming other than Pierre ... more jazzy, more this and more that ... but never with the rock edge that this guy had and then some. You can also see Pierre all over Mike Oldfield's Exposed DVD ... which is highly recommended.

Edited by moshkito - June 10 2009 at 10:14

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