Tony Williams' Blushda - Daily Drum Lesson

In this Drum Lesson I will show you this classic flam lick.

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*Timestamps*
00:00 - Intro
00:32 - the pattern
01:24 - as a fill
02:35 - displacement
04:13 - going crazy

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[arasiah]

Best Blushda tutorial I have seen, thank you!

[michaelbruhl]

Hi Michi, vielen Dank für die Super-Klasse-Erklärung des großartigen licks.
Bringt mich wieder ein Stück weiter "das stotternde Schlagzeugspiel" zu erlernen.
Vielen, vielen Dank !!!

[NowOffTheClock]

Love the permutations demonstrated so clearly! TY! 🥁😎

[silvanoolalla]

Dude, thank you so much for your lesson!!! I've been struggling with those for weeks and with your help I've finally made it!

[CameronBartholomew]

Nice video on this.... 1:01... 1:36.
Some ideas for the last four 16ths -- 1) Do another blushda, but slow down the R hand diddle to two 16th ghost notes, accent the L, then crash. 2) Use beat 4 of Rob Brown's Jo Jo Mayer fill... rL K R L <crash>. 3) You could also use this as a two-beat fill, with 2 blushdas and a flam-tap.

[dilshanjayathilake]

very well explained and thanks for the demonstration with the notations.

[adamrosefire]

Just what I was looking for - thank you.

[tcozturk]

Great video man. Giving people necessary tools to generate own idea(s) is making your style unique. Thanks a lot

[andreasbreitwieser]

nice concept!  like the playing and the sound!

[ricklang_drummer]

Also useful to throw in a kick or two in the middle of the blushda. Greg B demonstrates this somewhere. But basically view the blushda as a stumped flam drag not alternating. In this version, however, I feel the floor tom hit is too accented for it to be a left hand flam, but I understand that for the purpose of this video you need to show the strokes. When on ride, or toms I sometimes just imply the right hand in the left hand flam (initial stroke) since the accent should be in the LH.

[LittleDrummerChannel]

Love this man!! Great breakdown of this stroking bro!!

[KitCatStudio]

Great lesson my friend! Makes me really wanna try it out! Tnx 🥁

[MartinPirizDrums]

Easy, and great Sounding fill, great!

[andrewdriscoll]

Great job. Easy transcription of a lick that can be hard to teach, & conceptualize
5 stars.

[VikasGotla]

Jimmy Chamberlin from the Smashing Pumpkins regularly uses this lick!

[alikikalli]

Hello, thanks for the video, I can't understand how you count the one in 4:37. I would appreciate If you explain it to me! Thanks!!!

[seanfrancislynch]

Can you please provide a few recordings in which he uses this lick? Everyone says he uses this lick but where and when? I would like to hear historical context

[loucontino]

Nice. I'm working on these alternating them to start RH flam and then LH flam. This gets tricky because the ending stroke must change stroke height immediately to start the next flam. It's not a double either. You need to change the stroke height to quickly hit the next flam. |rL RR L lR LL R :|

[rinzfxp]

maybe im missing something here. it's a flam drag homie, that sticking makes it unnecessarily complicated, just alternate rlr lrl. unless tony's version is exclusively this inverted sticking, in which case i'll shut up. just thinking out loud here. great video though!

[aleksandarsavic]

Too hard for me, but thanks for this nice and very clear lesson!