Creative Pad Patterns | Guided Hand Workout for Drummers

Welcome to the *Creative Pad Patterns* workout. This is a guided drum pad workout designed for you to play along with in realtime to develop your hand speed, technique, and time. So, get out your pad and your sticks and let's get to work on building those hands! 🔥

00:00 Intro
01:12 4's to 8 Turnaround
04:05 3's to 4 Turnaround
06:48 Left Hand Blaster
09:19 Interlaced Singles Builder
11:04 Tricky Triplet Doubles
13:05 Triplet Accent Shifter
14:44 Paradiddle Diddle Turnaround
16:48 Fast Five Turnaround
19:20 Double Stroke Accent Shifter
22:30 Pullout Accent Builder
25:36 Funky Flam Flow
28:17 Flam Tap Turnaround
31:04 Swiss Triplet Turnaround
33:34 Triplet Accent Displacement
35:06 Paradiddle Accent Displacement

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[DennisJohnsonDrummer]

Relaxation is the key. Tension is the enemy of all musicians.
Thanks for sharing. Keep on drumming.

[juancarlosathome]

This is a mandatory DAILY workout for anyone who considers themselves a drummer... It's 40 mins, SO doable daily--bring your practice pad to work, get 15-20 mins of it done after eating your food on a typical 30 min lunch break, and finish the rest at home. Commit to this for a month, and there will be a night a day difference!! Now... Lemme just follow my own

[judstokes]

This is the best drum pad practice video on YouTube. Austin, please make another with different patterns and rudiments. Playing along with you doing multiple reps at different speeds is my favorite way to practice.

[bigfan]

I've been working this for about three weeks now. Couldn't sustain the max tempos except for only one or two exercises at first, but I'm officially playing all the way through now!! So thankful for this workout, it's helped me feel more comfortable and confident in my playing! Marching snare/drumset player

[thealchemist]

I’m going through this like a perfectionist run on a game. Have to get hit for hit, no rush and drag and only unlock the next exercise/speed if I do all 3 tempos flawlessly. Can’t wait to get through the whole vid so I can have this as a daily dust buster.

I’m grateful there’s people like you in the world, AB. You’re really doing this for the love of it and it’s an honour to share your work and fruit of your labours.

Well wishes from Australia.

[PeterKeyJeffery]

This is a fantastic daily workout, now part of my daily ritual. Tip: I found that setting the video play back to .75 speed allowed me to run through the entire routine (ie all speeds) without stopping. Obviously I will be working towards achieving it all at normal speed once the flow for each section is smooth as butter. I can not thank ABB more for this and she’s subsequent videos. Cheers, Peter in the U.K.

[strokeguru]

It was an honor working with you sir. Those last two got me. Will do some work on those.

[markyanish]

This is the best hand workout I’ve found in a long while. Love it!

[JBBOULAYDRUMS]

To everyone struggling with this, STICK TO IT! 3-5 times a week.
Did it for a couple months straight, couldn’t do it at the start, now it’s very easy and boring to me 😂 dont stop practicing until it gets boring

[NOORPHANSTUBE]

It’s taken me several years, periods of doing this every day, then time spent on other materials, periods of doing it on .75x speed, even .50x speed, endless examining of my technique and making adjustments but I’m finally at a point where I can play through this whole thing with close to perfect accuracy and staying relaxed. Some ex’s still give me a bit of trouble (funky flow for sure, nailing that 5 stroke roll at top speed is a bitchhh) but man I’ve come a long way since I left my first comment on this years ago. Thanks Austin, this video has helped me immensely. I can’t even fathom how many times I’ve played it haha

[jaydinpieguy]

Your guided hand work outs have helped me play chopstakovich 👍🏾 thank you

[justaguyandhissilver]

Great video. I love that the exercises aren't broken up with conversation. I don't have to skip around to play along. On a side note, I think the most beneficial implementation of an exercise has been making sure to focus on the skills I'm "not" comfortable with, rather than focusing on what I'm already good at. Another practice method I include is making sure to play the exercises (or song) leading with my weak hand and foot (left). For example, I have a double bass peddle. I'll play thru the exercises (or song) playing the base line with my right foot, then repeat the exercise (or song) playing the base line with my left foot. Hand patterns are the same. If I'm keeping rythum on the high hat with my right hand, the next go I'll keep rythum with my left hand. Same with the snare. Another thing I do is, for every exercise I practice with my dominant hand/foot, I practice the same exercise twice as long with my weak hand/foot. Everyone is different and what I do may be nonsense to others, but those are a few of my methods. Thanks again for the exercises.

[mattallin]

Been learning all these for the last couple months....my hand speed, accuracy and controlhas increased DRAMATICALLY

I will literally be playing these at 180 bpm and look down and laugh because I cant believe my hands are doing that lol...

[jamesbatcho]

12:35 is where I died. But I will keep with it. Really appreciate this exercise!

[notfreddie-psoi]

really good tip for those who feel they're "bored" with these patterns:
tap your feet and count aloud as you play; if that isn't enough, tap and count to the upbeat rather than the downbeat.
it's amazing how much more difficulty such a simple change can add.

[GeraldMyles]

AUSTIN BURCHAM IS A BEAST! I’ve taken all of Austin’s advice and used his tutorials and product reviews as inspiration to get better as a drummer and a teacher. He’s even motivated me to uplift my lesson/drum cover channel. I feel like my covers and tutorials have gotten better just by subscribing to Austin’s channel. I'd love any feedback/subscriber support from my fellow drummers. Keep rockin’!

[thomasfucik]

I watched during my lunch break at work and followed along, tapping without sticks on my legs. What a great challenge without the rebound of a stick. Great exercises. Thanks, Austin!

[charpssss]

This was the one of the first workouts I would follow when I started playing in 2022. I keep coming back to this video for 3 years as a benchmark for my progress. Finally just able to get through the high speed sections.
Did lots of side quests trying to master this video.
Lots of good core concepts packed into one video, helped me learn flammus, which got my hand speed up and get through the flammed exercises in this video. The paradiddle accent shifter is last up, gotta train it on the metronome and that’ll be locked in.

Level one felt like just playing along with improper counting

Level two was adding the kick for the metronomes, with improper counting

Level three was proper counting with the kick

Level four was not needing to count anymore, and being able to find the count based off sound

[bleakcandour]

2025 and it's still *the best* pad workout video there is. soooo good!

[castlehilldude]

Question..."Can you keep up?"

I am working on it!"

I downloaded the pdf when it first became available a few weeks back. Some of those patterns are really tricky. But they are attainable by anyone who puts in the effort. Take any unfamiliar pattern REALLY SLOWLY to build muscle memory. One you get that, it takes relatively little time to get it up to speed. There are no short cuts here, you have to put in the work. Thank you for a great work out Austin.