Transform Your Blushda! (Another Blushda Drum Lesson!)

The blushda is a must-know rudiment for any drummer. The problem is it’s really easy to play it in the same old tired ways that everyone else does, I know that I do! So today let’s push beyond the blushda and see what this thing can really do.

Timestamps

0:00 - Let's Get Started
0:25 - What is it?
1:50 - Make it Bigger?
3:15 - Get it Moving
4:00 - Make it Groove!

Thanks for watching my video. If you liked it then share it around. Happy drumming!

[DaveMajor]

Hey everyone! Sorry for the excessively loud 4-5 seconds of music about 20 seconds in.
I'd fire the editor...but that's me! Hope you guys still enjoy the video

[meekoloco]

Great vid man! I especially like your rim version of the blushda. Love the silly bit at the end!

[cassylobo]

Your videos are always Amazing n helpful, is there a pdf for this lesson.

[BradSchlueter]

On your Tony Williams clip his double is played on his left hand, isn’t it?

[benedict]

You should earn way more views and subscriptions!! What was that last full you played?

[greenenoiseaudio]

I thought I was done with the Blushda yet here I am, watching more blushda videos. Can you clear something up for me Dave? I learned the blushda just by slowing down videos of what people were doing. When people talk about it theoretically, a lot of the time they say, "it's just a Swiss army triplet with a diddle in the middle". Is it though? Isn't it a flam accent? Everyone says this but so far as I can tell, they say Swiss army triplet but mostly end up playing a flam accent with a diddle in the middle (a flam drag), with the 3rd note also then accented. The Blushda, so far as I know it, is (r)L rr L. If you take the root of it as a Swiss army triplet it would instead be (l)R rr L. Everyone obviously accents the lefts with this leading of the sticking and not only is it less regular to accent a grace note, it doesn't seem to be what anyone is actually doing when they play it. Using the Swiss army triplet instead of the Flam accent or flam drag as the root, leads to an incorrect Blushda sticking. It's still cool but it's it's own thing, especially once you start orchestrating it.

I'm asking this purely as it relates to teaching the theory to students. I think this same thing was brought up on Rob Brown's Blushda video. To me, the base is the Flam accent.

[DaveMajor]

For all you that watch the whole thing! Comment the last 3 words I say in the video ;)

[PCForrest]

That was excessive!

PS -- can you PLEASE turn down the background music while you're talking? Some of us find it difficult to hear the spoken word at the best of times, but unnecessarily loud background music just makes that much harder. Cheers.