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Drum Fill for "I Can't Help Myself" by the Four Tops: Part 2

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Summary: Play the signature Motown fill at the end of the drum intro for the Four Tops song "I Can't Help Myself" (aka "Sugar Pie Honey Bunch"). Learn how in this free cover songs and drum lesson video.

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Drum Fill for "I Can't Help Myself" by the Four Tops: Part 2

JOEL SIEGEL: All right. So we've got our beat three as a fill. Those two sixteenth notes and then the sixteenth note triplet. Okay? All that happens after that is a couple of eighth notes. Right, left, you can--really, you can stick it however you want. But in tempo, we have one, two. Okay, it's just four and, okay? That's all that happens on beat four. And then the only--as far as the toms go, I mentioned those earlier, the only thing that changes is you play your first right, your first right hand, the downbeat of three on a high tom, and then the last upbeat, the upbeat of four on the low tom. So I can sing it for you, it's dum-di-di-di-da-dum, okay? Dum, dum. Okay, so three and. Those are where the toms go, but the fill--you get a similar effect just playing it on the snare. So yeah, just one more time. One, two. One, two. One, two. Okay? So take a look at the next clip and we'll do the whole intro, the six bar intro to the tune as it's heard on the recording, and we'll play that fill and that'll take us into the actual beat for the tune, that quarter note driving pulse.

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