Welcome to ultimate drumming calm. I'm Jim McCall. I'm going to show you this really cool 12 eight Phil. First I'm gonna play for you. I'm gonna break it down note by note and show you how it works. A 123123123123 When playing these great sounding 12 eight fills, you got to be thinking at 12 a time.

The 12 eight times signature means you're playing 12 eighth notes in a measure. And each eighth note is getting one count. Be like this 1-234-567-8910 11 Well, not counting all the way up to 12 can be a mouthful, especially when you get into the numbers that have more than one syllable. So a shortcut would be to count 1-231-231-2312 Two, three, like so 123123123123 now when I'm counting groups of three, it's important to remember that it takes four groups of three to equal 12. I'm going to add the foot, the foot is going to go on each one that I say in each group of three would go like this 123123123123. Now when I'm playing this great sounding 12, eight, Phil, each grouping of three eighth notes is going to be played on a different drum.

So it'd be like this 123123123123 Now when playing this pattern, it really doesn't matter which direction or which drum you play on, as long as you're moving back and forth from the drum with each grouping of three. A great way to practice this would be to play two measures 12 eight fill Hole by two measures 12 eight beat two measures fill two measures beat something like this. I'm going to pick up the tempo a little bit a 1231231231 There you have it another excellent sounding 12 eight Phil. Library. I'm Joe McCall. Thanks for watching, ultimate drumming.com