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Creating Fills

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Sun, 06/26/2011 - 18:57
Peter757
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I am working in Improvising Study 1...
Creating fills is a major source of difficulty for me, at least one's that sound half-way decent!
Any special tricks? Or is this something that just comes with time and practice.

In another FORUM TOPIC about improvising I saw a comment from Winslow that stated trying working with 2 note combinations...trying to come up with as many different patterns as you can. Would that be useful to try when creating fills as well?

Thank you.

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Sun, 06/26/2011 - 19:26
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David Barrett
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Yes, combinations of a few notes will be great. You can also steal fills from your study songs.

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