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This Fill Can Be Your Secret Sauce

David Frank  /  UPDATED Aug 20, 2022

If you know David Frank from his TikTok videos, you’ll already know that his drumming is full of crazy flavor. So why not learn a sweet fill and pick up one component of his secret sauce?

It’s simpler than it looks. Start with two hits on each tom, followed a double with your right hand on the floor tom, then a single with your left on the snare.

Next, it’s two kicks followed by simultaneously hitting the high tom and hi-hat, then two kicks followed by the next tom and hi-hat, and finally one kick and the last tom and hi-hat.

Pretty cool, right?


David Frank is a professional drummer who made a name for himself online. He first gained recognition with the help of the video app musical.ly (now TikTok) which he used to create drum covers from popular artists and where he was a featured artist multiple times. Other than his work online, he's also done a lot of studio and live playing with Radio Disney, the SiAngie Twins, The Bomb Digz, and Lucki Starr, among many other projects.

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