Gavin Harrison's Favourite Sticking (Drum Lesson)

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Every drummer has a select few patterns that naturally appear in their playing without much effort. It's so ingrained into our muscle memory and our deep understanding of the pattern has made it become apart of our "sound".

So what's one of Gavin Harrisons? You ready?

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[yrussq]

The most underrated drummer ever. So much feel and understanding of what he's doing, the same time the most plain and simple explanations. Gavin is just gorgeous.

[Yaboroqe]

If a top drummer like Gavin shares this with the drumming community he also is a generous person.

[johnburkeydrums]

After playing this the first time I started to practice this sticking. For the last year I keep going back and play this over and over. I finally reach the point where I can finally play and understand how to do what he’s doing. It sounds so dam cool. So addictive to prefect it but doubt I will ever play it as good as Gavin. My favorite drummer. Wish he was my next door neighbor, LOL

[adamjacksonmedia]

I LOVE how articulate English prog musicians are.

Bill Bruford, Harrison, Robert Fripp... all have a musical way of explaining things.

[shantanunathan]

Aaah! I can't stop watching him play, he makes it looks so effortless.

[DailyDrumLesson]

I heard him refer to this sticking as his favorite one years ago. My favorite sticking changes like twice a week.

[ernokorhonen]

Style, class, groove, tune. One of the finest drummers out there.

[andrestricker]

Gavin is one of the most amazing personalities in music - not even talking about his even more amazing drumming skills

[omairsh]

So articulate, precise, and effortless.

And I haven't even mentioned his drumming yet

[cave]

From a simple sticking to complex rhythms with no pattern change! Brilliant!

[recksroller]

I've been doing this exact same sticking ever since I started getting into odd times. Nice to know a professional and I share a highly specific attribute in our playing.

[jtx]

A variation of this that he's also said he likes to play is RLRLL. A favorite of mine is RLLRL, which is just the first five notes of an inverted paradiddle repeating. To expand on adding the bass drum, a seven stroke fill/groove idea I like to move around the set is RLLKKRL as 16th notes, just throw in another two more notes to make it fit into 4/4.

[JoeNocella]

Love this guy! He's not about twirling, juggling, silly faces, etc..He just plays his butt off...

[johnburkeydrums]

Bet I’ve played this video over and over 30 times over the last year. Love it.

[kamalhazim]

you know Mr Gavin Harrison takes it to another level when he played the polyrhythm and both of it are on odd meters, independently.

[felipeabreu]

03:36 Man, that's sublime. I'm affected. Amazing!

[mgbwitt]

Recently discovered this guy. Amazing, amazing

[NikhilMaira]

This is such a surprise! I thought I'd already watched all the videos! Very very helpful🔥 Thanks Drumeo!

[simoncooper]

and that's why he is one of the best drummers in the world....amazingly effortless

[HadEnough]

Gavin is tremendous. No tricks just straight ahead great drumming.