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WHEN To Play Bass Fills (3 Places That Will ALWAYS Work) - YouTube
Channel: Luke from Become A Bassist
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you don't want to be you know Rambo you
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know just go with a machine-gun just
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firing away instead with your fills you
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want to be a sniper hi I'm Luke Trimble
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come a bassist and in this bass lesson
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you're going to learn three of the best
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places to place your fills as a bass
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player
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welcome to become a bassist where it's
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all about no BS based lessons to help
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you play better bass have tons of fun
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and become the best bassist that you can
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be today it's all about fills now not
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necessarily what to play when you're
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playing fills that's what people usually
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talk about when they're you know talking
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about fills and all that kind of stuff
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but people really talk about where to
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put your fills and that's probably just
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as important as making sure you're
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playing the right things you know if
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you're playing the correct notes but in
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the wrong place you can have a bad time
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one trap that a lot of people fall into
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and I definitely know I fell into this
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trap when I was younger was just play
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fills everywhere just about every four
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bars regardless of what was going on in
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the music and you know it's
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understandable you learn some cool new
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stuff and you want to play it you want
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to use it so you end up putting fills
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just absolutely everywhere left right
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and center but you don't want to be you
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know Rambo you know just go with a
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machine-gun just firing away instead
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with your fills you want to be a sniper
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you want to strategically pick the
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places where you're going to fill and
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then execute so let's talk about some of
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the best places to actually do this
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first place that's really obvious to
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play a fill is when there is a gap
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specifically for the base to play one if
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you think about songs like the Beatles I
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want you there's this kind of big
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build-up on an E chord and then
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throughout the section there's these
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breaks where it's nothing but space for
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the bass to play yeah we get one two
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three four one two three four there's
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that space set two three four space two
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three four and it's in these spaces that
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Paul McCartney he plays something like
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this one two three four one yeah
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super iconic super famous it's almost
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like part of the baseline rather than a
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fill but it is totally just like that
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now this is perfect because the song was
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written with these brakes in mind right
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the same thing happens at the end of the
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first chorus of easy by the Commodores
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we're getting to the end of the chorus
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he likes Sunday
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and then we get this two three yeah easy
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like Sunday morning three four one upon
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me
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one two three bucka bucka gotta go back
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yeah there's that space in there and the
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bass fills up with that now I'm not sure
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if that space was left deliberately for
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the bass but the bass is you know what
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ended up filling that space and it works
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so well anytime there's space for a fill
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it is possible to throw one in but you
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know sometimes space without a fill is
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what's needed for the song remember
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you're not Rambo you're a sniper you
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want to place your fields strategically
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and hopefully make the song better
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instead of making it worse I know I was
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when I was a Rambo I totally made things
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worse let's actually give this a try
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I've got a little drum track here with a
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little space at the end of every phrase
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that we can put a little fill now the
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track by itself sounds like this two
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three four two and space yeah so let's
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just fly it out let's let's pretend we
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have like a chord progression that goes
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yeah so we get and E flat and then over
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break we'll put that built right there
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yeah makes sense right I'm good
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it's like a two bar phrase and then
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we'll put a fill at two so
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yeah see how that works there's that
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space there and I'm sure you kind of get
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the picture now the real trick is in
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making sure that nobody else plays there
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if there is a space specifically for the
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base you get you know greedy guitarists
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or / sells drummers they kind of come in
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and step all over your toes you want to
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avoid that if you can and like really
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make that like a base feature all right
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place number 2 to put fills is as a way
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of increasing intensity and the tension
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in a song one of my favorite films of
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all time comes from overnight
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December 63 and that Phil does exactly
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this raises the intensity it's at the
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end of a section of a song there's a
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whole bunch of other stuff going on
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drums are filling at the same time
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vocals are still singing but man it's so
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cool I can't sing play that at the same
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time the Phil sound like this yeah just
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like that but this does the job of
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making things busier it creates tension
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and then when we go back to the verse
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down there that tension is released
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everything feels good this is the
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perfect place to put a film usually
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these kinds of fills happen at the ends
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of sections for example at the end of a
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verse and then going into a chorus or
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chorus going back into a verse basically
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anytime there's a big shift in this
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section the really tricky part about
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doing these kind of fills is that there
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will likely be other people who feel the
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urge to fill as well and it can work
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with multiple people playful at the same
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time but more often than not it'll end
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up being a bit of a train wreck so make
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sure that if you do this kind of fill
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that you're not make up straight make
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sure that if you do do this kind of fill
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that you end on beat one of the next
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section and be super strong about it if
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you look back at the old water night
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example it does exactly this we end up
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up here but when we get to the next
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section the one lands hard on that D
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flat at that start of the next section
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perfect
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the third really prime spot for bass
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fills is in unexpected kinds of places
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so typically drummers will fill into new
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sections and you know mark new sections
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with big fills and like I said that can
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be a train wreck if you're playing a
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fill at the same time the solution fill
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in between these big markers so for
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example if the song you're playing has a
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four bar phrase as a verse try putting a
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fill in the middle of the phrase rather
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than at the end of it to avoid stepping
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on anyone's toes so if we had something
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like this where the drum is playing a
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fill every four bars so this is by three
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two three four four two yeah so if the
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drum is playing every four bars of fill
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we can play it in the middle of that
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phrase yeah so let's wind it up again
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fill it's almost like trading off fills
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that's idea yeah out of the way of the
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drum fill and you can see how this works
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you'll stay out of each other's way but
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still having the chance to actually play
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your fills and all your fancy stuff now
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in this example I'm definitely being
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more of a Rambo than a sniper but that's
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just you know show you these examples on
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a real gig I would not feel nearly as
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much one guy that I have enormous
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respect for his playing is Nate Mandel
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the bass player for the Foo Fighters now
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he gets a fair bit of hate in bass
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playing circles on line which I don't
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really understand because I guess people
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feel like his playing is too simple or
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they have the mindset of you know I
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could have done that but what I love
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about Nate
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bells playing is how strategically he
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fills rarely will he play more than a
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couple of fills per song but the ones he
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does play they're super incredible
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they're perfectly placed there in the
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right vibe they're very understated I
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love everything about them I think it's
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amazing now whether that's Nate himself
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making those decisions or someone else
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in the band or its maybe producer in the
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studio it's just about perfect for the
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song every single time a great example
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of this is the song best of you and
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there's this big section massive section
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at the end of the song that's the kind
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of emotional peak so to add to the whole
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kind of epic feel of the song he adds in
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a couple of fills the kind of regular
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bass line is just eighth notes on the
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roots of the chords but in this section
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he has something like this yeah I'm not
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sure if that's exactly what it is I
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can't remember but it's super super
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subtle and I think there's another one
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in that same section as well it's a
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super subtle thing that you might not
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even notice on the first listen but it's
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exactly the right idea when it comes to
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playing fills this is the kind of second
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fill where it raises the intensity and
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it's like I said perfect also like I
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mentioned before one of my favorite
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fields of all time is from December 63
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now we didn't really have time to go
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over the whole thing in detail in this
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video but I'd love to show you how to
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play it in this video right here I go
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through exactly how to play it note by
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note but I also show you how you can
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adapt and use the fill for so much more
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than just the one song so if you're
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ready to learn what I think is the best
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baseball of all time
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I'll see you in that video there
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