Todd Sucherman / Tony Williams lick

[byLivio]

lol,his interpretation of the lick is just epic.

[Lasmamoe]

I am very much jelaous of that fucking house with that drumset and that view !!!

[aponcapone]

Sir..............you have a nice looking and sounding kit....Im jalous...

[Greenoathz]

hey nicolas cage is capable of playing drums !

[Loqucious]

Just go to the following times and maybe a few seconds before and after.

3:28 to 3:33

[BrianFosterdrummer]

Sucherman, my new favorite drummer!

[doodguy78]

that is one badass living room!

[liennto]

haha I love this guy

[darthjoey13]

I do something like this. I call it an inverted flam six stroke roll and I play it R(l)llrrl repeat. Or an inverted flam 9 stroke which R(l)llrrlR(l)ll repeat.

[tooldrummer]

@darthjoey13 If you mean your playing a right handed flam (ghost left, accent right) to make the pattern lR LLRRL I can see that working and am going to try it next time I'm at a kit. That makes more sense to me cos otherwise you'd be playing 3 lefts in a row which is awkward. Either way, thanks for the inspiration.

[allmetaliswelcome]

i like it for that agressiveness! why subtleness?

[MaroMeshuggah]

So.... you've played those crazy things and exampled for a secend in a little bit slowler,what we need to do now!!!

[MaroMeshuggah]

1:16 WUT

[TheNoteGhost]

"Please this lick is not a toy, so use it well". That's not only a hilarious statement, but it defines what this "Lesson" is all about. He's just showing players that know how to play it, how to play it in more then one way and not get carried away with playing it in one way and ruining it for everyone!

[funkywhite]

Sweet!. I think your microphones cost more than your kit! Damn. That's one fine sounding kit. (good job, engineer!)

[edbot7]

Its a rudiment called a gramma

RLRRL, just play with it till it loosens up.

[spacitydrummer4JC]

Someone needs to make a clip of just 1:16-1:18.

[WGIfan]

I'm not bashing any one who uses this lick (especially Todd), but why does this even have a name and history behind it? It's just a swiss flam drag... Again not criticizing, just wondering.

[Volentry]

@WGIfan I think it's because some of these hybrid rudiment stuff are used only for snare drumming. So I guess the history was just who are the ones that applied it to the kit and made the lick famous. No idea where the name came from, just that it's like a onomatopoeia way of naming it.

[rogersat]

@WGIfan also licks, at least in the drumset world (dunno about drum corps) are much more than what's written on the page. the history and stylistic approach make it much more than a sterile "swiss flam drag."

[pdrums777]

Hey Folks if you actually want the lick broken down for you check out:

"Steve Holmes demonstration of the Blush Da"

[sticksbass]

hahaha! great drummer and humorist!

[samolos33]

1:16 convultion..fuck yea

[residentdrummerpete]

so thats what the gublushda came from! never knew who played it- i learned it off pridgen who learned it off vinnie

[tugaJP112]

gbloudge gbloudge gbloudge xDD

[mrthundaboots]

He's got a tasty touch.

[pooperscoopr69]

Some people should never attempt to teach anything regarding the art of drumming.

Todd is one of 'em.

What drivel.

[krisq14]

@pooperscoopr69 Yeah, its like they give those Modern Drummer no. 1 Educational Video of the year awards out for nothing these days!

[nakedeyez]

"However you wanna stick it"....Hmm. Todd is a cool down to earth, bad ass drummer. Sucherman, seems very genuine to me. I love his sense a humor. Drummers, need to check their egos and find a sense of humor. Even Thomas Lang said he don't take himself seriously, yet he's serious about the craft.

[DrummerBRYCE]

@nakedeyez Very well put.

[2cfhdh1]

lol. Hes Funny

[Bycle]

this video is just fucking awesome for some reason

[gitchigoomi]

You are a great player and a lousy teacher. All your videos are just you showing off under the pretense of demonstrating a lick. If you are going to teach it.....then teach it. Don't just play it a thousand miles an hour.

[allmetaliswelcome]

@gitchigoomi he isn't teaching it, but showing ways to make it less agressive, as he said....

[drummerkingmike]

@gitchigoomi this is taken from his DVD as a promotion. At the beginning of the DVD he teaches all of the stickings properly, and then in this section demonstrates how to use them. If you bought the DVD you'd see he's a fantastic teacher

[drummer9990]

@gitchigoomi

i think that he has a right to show off, he plays for one of the biggest bends in history.

[gitchigoomi]

@drummer9990 Biggest bends?

[sweetfly66]

@gitchigoomi ...I get what you are saying ...but I think this clip assumes that the listener already knows how to play the lick ...that the listener already knows the sticking of the blushda lick .... thus , he is not there to show you how to do the lick , rather he is showing people two things ... one , the pitfalls of the lick ... two , some variations and potentials of the lick

[Tristnator4]

@gitchigoomi I agree with you about him being a lousy teacher. But he is not teaching, he is giving his interpretation of the lick and how it should be used. Just saying. Not looking for an argument.

[sebz61]

@Tristnator4 there's no one way to use it.

[Kelavmeister]

@Tristnator4 I feel like even then you couldn't judge him as a teacher because you aren't having like a one on one with him where his goal is actually to TEACH, you know? I can say, after watching a lot of this DVD I have learned more about playing drums, both in being a better musician and learning some amazing new sticking ideas, than from a majority of the teachers I've had. You have to do a lot of work yourself too to make the most of his DVD I think..

[backbeatbobby]

@Tristnator4 well yourve found one with this nonsense statement how the fuck is he a lousy teacher?maybe you just dont get it but to me this guys not only a great player but an equally great teacher what more do you want?

[Bonhamman90]

@gitchigoomi He's demonstrating it in context. Besides, I have eyes and I can clearly see what he is doing and how he is playing the licks. Use your senses to figure it out! The good teachers are ones that DON"T teach you step by step like the viewer is a baby

[Slipstream0001]

I'm so buying this dvd!

[meuzaman22]

anybody knows what kind of hi hats he uses?

[x2bnex2me]

@meuzaman22 According to his website, Sabian AA 14" mediums.

[Insectamongus]

@x2bnex2me actually for this dvd it's HHX Evolution hats. According to the dvd

[Insectamongus]

@meuzaman22 HHXEvolution

[xXSTRONGBRXx]

Wow. Very cool pattern.

[MYNAMETAYLA]

BLUSDA,BLUSHDA,BLABLRRBLLRRR