The Definitive Blushda Drum Lesson Video

[@damnnargles]

I have watched countless videos on double stroke rolls and the blushda, and it wasn't until I looked at your videos that I came away knowing what was being explained. Thank you for your videos and insight..

[@MikeHorneMusic]

Yup!! I am a professional session drummer, that first learnd the Blushda from Steve's original Blushda video all those years ago!! Big respect Steve Holmes!! "All Hail the original" !! PLEASE CAN WE GET STEVE HOLMES ON DRUMEO???

[@wmakiling805]

I took a lesson from Steve at his lockout in Burbank. He is such a great instructor and musician.

[@andrewczegledi]

I've watched the original countless times and what a great follow-up to make sure people are using the blushda responsibly and respecting it.

[@PLDrums1]

You're one of the best teachers out there man. I love your playing/ideas/feel too. Monster!

[@seanfrancislynch]

Man I was scouring KZbin for someone who ACTUALLY gave musical examples from recordings....this is why you are a great musician. You know your history and then can spring off of the original and make your own creative ideas.

[@DrumDisciple1]

I learned the blushda from one of your vids like 12 years ago!!!

[@rowenberrou1084]

Same here !

[@gw8278]

Agreed, good to see the refresher. Tuned me up on a place or two. Perfect!

[@StefBelgium]

Gavin Harrison uses a bunch of blushdas during solo and during songs too. It sounds so great! You master those blushdas incredibly well!

[@scottmoyer1357]

Your well-oiled and advanced stick technique and your genuine love for the drums continues to inspire. Love the sound of those Yamaha's, too.

[@alonzovillarreal4666]

Steve Smith was my introduction to that lick in the 90’s too, took forever to figure it out lol. Your explanation wayyyyy back cleared it up, thank you!

[@christschinwon]

I'm so glad to discover you Steve. You make it real about the journey into these adavance licks so it's not terrifying & that's so important. Thank you!

[@thaddeuscorea]

I know this is an old video, but you're crushing it as a teacher (and drummer). Thank you

[@jeffwaters2470]

Like the way you break stuff down- simplify things that somebody like me who has played for a yr after taking a 25yr break can practice and put this in a musical context. Thanks

[@RobFerrellDrumStudio]

Best teacher on the interwebs. Period. I’ve learned so much from your “Shed Some Light” DVD and all your old school vids from HOD. Thanks for taking the time to put this stuff out.

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Thanks Rob - hope all is well with you.

[@peterknispel4020]

This is a great lesson Steve. Thanks. I have been working hard on this myself. I have been doing it with the sticking of a right hand flam then LLR. I will practice the alternate sticking now. Left hand flam RRL. Excellent

[@drummermomcjs]

Steve, I watched your video on the Blush-da almost a decade ago. I enjoyed the video and got the concept, but had a hard time getting my hands to cooperate. Every so often for years, I would revisit your video and hit the same wall afterward as I tried it on the kit. While I could do the basic lick, it wasn't sounding good. Today I revisited your video again and saw this one. After years of struggling with this lick, I finally got it today. Your updated video explained the lick even better than your first video and that coupled with improved skill on my end and now I can play this lick. Thank you for both videos on this lick and I look forward to viewing some of your other videos.

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Glad this new video got you over the hump. I hope you have fun with it.!

[@patrickberkery8854]

Best ever explanation/demos of blushda I've ever seen. Amazing! Thank you, Steve!

[@JimBrooksDrums]

Great instructional video. Blown away by all the information. Thank you Steve

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Thanks Jim!

[@JoeNeminski]

you're one of the smoothest musicians I've seen and I'm just now hearing about you through KZbin?! I would love to see you do a lesson on Drumeo. Drummers need to see you play!

[@matthewguzda4075]

Joe , how u doin brother, I just found this mans vids today. Love his playing and vids (check rob brown too) and it's so inspiring to get a great lo lesson like this. I'm an old guy and god I wish I had the KZbin when I was young and learning. Cheers bro, keep drummin

[@andersdo2925]

Steve does not need Drumeo, in my opinion! Steve’s content is good and I like his presentation so far as I just subscribed last week! Drumeo “hosts” would interrupt with lame questions. Not sure if Steve is on Instagram but I am definitely going to search!

[@Thedrummersalmanac]

Man, I just found your channel and binged a bunch of your lessons! Great stuff, awesome playing and teaching.

[@ckaledin]

Thank you for this video Steve! It’s helped immensely, not only with adding the blushda to my bag, but also with accents! I don’t think I realized how much work my accents needed ‘til I started working in this figure. Love how these ideas are all speaking to each other. Great lesson!

[@forza-e-honore]

By far the best Blushda lesson on the internet! You talk about the 2 things that make it sound good at 5:00, which took me a long time to figure out on my own. Great lesson! Thanks Steve!

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Yeah man!

[@jerryhoran6036]

So you named the blushda!? The name is as cool as the lick! Love you work Steve. Greetings from Jersey

[@rhythmantic]

Thanks Steve, awesome lesson. It would be great to see notation of these examples.

[@robertthompson5568]

Wow! I almost can't believe that the blushda needed a boost to make it sound cooler...🤯 (Dude is crazy talented 👏)

[@TheMrRatzz]

Wow. I was looking for that very video! 😂 Great to see it, and you, again. I have no idea where I watched the original video...

[@phildrummer6309]

Great vid Steve, just love your flowing feel.

[@Craigo-xg5mc]

Somewhat related... I spent the last year or more almost daily working on Steve's Double-Stroke Roll Phrasing ideas. It took an entire year because my doubles were that bad to start. Anyway now that I have some decent (not perfect) Double-Stroke Roll Phrasing under my belt, fills like the Blushda are within reach. Those Double-Stroke Roll Phrasing lessons completely changed my ability to move forward. Thanks, Steve!!

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Glad the doubles are coming along. It's all about doubles!!

[@nickfili9409]

I am really appreciating your videos, especially this one and the one with Helpful Jazz Exercises. Very accessible and useful!

[@simonstuart1325]

Awesome Steve ,i remember the very first lesson on this .!

[@alanarber6950]

I learned this by slowing down the Steve Smith video. It took an hour, then your first video came out. Good timing

[@perrylawson4526]

Another great lesson. Thank you Steve

[@GETLifestyle]

im so glad you re-made this video....the blushda is so clean...thanks steve

[@davidnace1959]

Yeah, or a transcription ;)- thanks for putting this stuff out there. Any recordings of you with a group? I’d buy that in a heartbeat!

[@BenjaminBadenhorstMusic]

I just unliked this video so I could like it again. You and Sucherman are the best teachers on YT. Kit sounds perfect as well 🔥

[@nameloss]

i remember that original video! good to see you revisiting it, nice to get a refresher on my end

[@tomreschke80]

This is a lick that I've played so much but haven't really thought about it as much as you. So thank you for such a thoughtful explanation.

[@harlsyberg710]

I’ve heard this played before and the sound this rudiment made was fantastic. Never knew a ‘blushda’ was similar to a Swiss army triplet. Thanks for the help!

[@marioarturocoronelluna3062]

always a pleasure to see your lessons and the way you explain them , make it so easy to try , thanks so much my regards from Can Cun Mexico

[@adambloodfist3368]

I love that original video! You're still a weapon of a drummer to this day! Thanks for teaching me that lick all those years ago.

[@dodirerimi]

Really mind blown by the creativity. I would have never thought of incorporating it this way. Plus to come up with different variations of the same rudiment based on how you want it to sound. Thank you.

[@1dkd1dkd]

For all your videos, you are a masterful presenter, teacher and drummer. Thanks so much for going public!

[@lechthaler100]

Love your passion for explaining and teaching

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Thank you. It's fun talking drums.

[@robertosilveira2384]

Incredible lesson Mr Holmes! Thank you for this!

[@coryflanigan]

Thank you for the video, Steve! Garbatini has helped me out so much in my life. He steered me towards great stuff and I will always be grateful for his guidance.

[@dieguitoargalpha]

GREAT LESSON;GREAT DRUMMER THNX STEVE!!

[@gzablodski]

Very good sound of the drum set! Effortless playing style. I like it!!!

[@patpanza3694]

Great playing brother!

[@hitmoredrums]

Thanks Steve, this is so instructional and inspiring at the same time. Flam fills just has such a nice feel to them!

[@jimmylinear8426]

Glad I found you. Enjoying all your stuff. 👍🏻👊🏻

[@keithk.3963]

Really diggin’ the presentation of the concept, the breakin’ it down into its simplest form, and then the expansion of the original to the point where you wear it out. So many possibilities covered to fit any level or intensity. Thank you.

[@markmalonson7531]

I luv your playing.Great videos thank you!

[@TORTUDRUMS]

Incredible educator! and the drumming ... wow!

[@TheDrummagurl]

You give me dave weckl vibes. Honestly, learning new things everyday. Mu favourite lick is the blushda

[@danielmezzanotte5569]

Great lesson Steve. Thanks. I migrated over from Steven Taylor's channel. He spoke highly of you and I see he was right. I just subscribed.

[@thelapander]

These drums sound incredible

[@bartuce6806]

steve your videos helped me immensely i love learning this stuff and trying to milk it much as i can you are a outstanding teacher and a great player thank you for the inspiration

[@jackboost9810]

Love it. Great set up and sound too.

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Thanks for listening

[@jackboost9810]

@@SteveHolmesDrums Dude, thanks for doing your thing and sharing!

[@TolgaBedirVideos]

great video, amazing drum playing.

[@DolkkarToyznstuff]

The bass drum under the ride in combination with the loose flam really fills out the sounds and helps to make it much more cohesive, (in my opinion) with whatever song it's being implemented into. Great video and I appreciate the time you put into these. Great musical references as well, nothing but respect!

[@mamoiacolney2872]

This guy deserves more subscriber

[@Awesomerify]

Just wanna say you're freaking awesome. Thanks so much. Really love how you came up with so many variations from this.

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Thank you so much!

[@DaveRodway]

that's the one I remember. YOU taught me the riff...Thank you!

[@snorhyveln]

You are flawless. period.

[@darrendyes6254]

Thanks for the encouragement Steve. I came to this video by suggestion of Steven Taylor and I see why he sent us here! Definitely made a subscriber out of me today! And I promise not to hurt too many ppl with it!!

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@ronaldgenendlis6423]

Love the cymbals sound. Great video. Thank you for posting.

[@xenprovence6126]

Hi Steve, thanks for all the videos! I dug an old tape from the early 1980's with Vinnie Colauita playing and Karizma (Dean Cortez on Bass). We all used to sit behind his set and one night a friend set up Sony two track. You may have already heard this recording but if not and you're are interested in hearing it let me know...I can send mp3's after I master them a bit. Bryn

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Sure man keep me posted. Thanks!

[@RafikMankariosDrumStudio]

Great video and playing Steve! You're an amazing drummer. Peace!

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Thanks a lot!

[@JohnMuskiet]

Tight!!! en played very flexible.Thanks for sharing Steve...

[@bosnuts7058]

Awesome technique and great tuning!

[@timothycline1570]

Thank you Steve Holmes! Amazing find

[@MultiRedman30]

You sir have got yourself a new follower

[@mat_j]

you taught me blushda , thx Steve

[@davelaflamme]

This is so very very very nice. i had been messing with this stuff lately actually ....such a timely gift.

[@tootallforbaseball]

"Your mileage may vary..." That's hilarious... Great playing, great demonstration and teaching!

[@Jimlabra]

You know, their are drummers who are great at teaching and drummers who are great at playing, this dude does both👍🙏🤙thank you for your vids. Yo my drum Sensei🙏

[@fenandobc]

Thanks Steve, very educational and musical. I have here studies from some weeks!!!

[@condundrop]

I remember Steve's original blushda video. It was right there with Traditional Grip and Matched Grip.

[@devyneynes8487]

Hello Steve, I go by parties. first, you are amazing, second you have to record a CD with everything you play with a spur of the moment style music, it would also be amazing and third, will you take a long time to come to Argentina? Here we wait for you ... thanks for everything, you are one of the greats.

[@AlexMusic_51]

So good! Thanks, Steve!

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Glad you liked it!

[@danlhendl]

Steve you're an awesome drummer I don't get out that much but I haven't heard of you until I came across your videos and you're one of the best you must be playing with some very good people. Thanks for the lesson. you're awesome

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Thank you!

[@kinserjosh]

Thanks, Steve. Awesome video as always!

[@MonacoRocha]

very nice bro.. you look real good with that left hand... great bro

[@Olhead718]

Excellent video thanks!

[@longfade]

Well, I still haven't gotten this lick down but this video always really helps to break it down into manageable elements. Great stuff; I just need to actually practice the thing a little more.

[@timothygayne2058]

Nice Job I always wondered what it was called back in the day hi quality sounds as well

[@chrismorales2508]

Absolutely sleezy with lazy flam! Thank you!

[@williamkjwilliamkj1815]

I love the way Weckl does it on snare and cowbell

[@Nassoud60]

Amazing work thank you 🙏

[@bshubo]

great! thank you for all your great videos! - i remember seeing a steve smith version of the tony blushda written out as a 4:3 phrase- gotta find it

[@drumlanguage4114]

Man, I really love your playing!

[@daveodart]

Once again you have blow my mind with an awesome concept, thank you 🙏

[@simonstuart1325]

incredible playing mate

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

Thanks a lot Simon.

[@stixkid9811]

Great lesson. Thank you.

[@danlhendl]

Your technique is phenomenal... along with your playing, of course. I only started watching drum videos more recently.I thought I was pretty good until I did, how aout that senri kawaguchi?, like Hello Kitty meets Vinnie Colaiuta ) but I've never seen such fluidity and perfectly hand movement like yours. Maybe it's that molar technique one hears about. When you mentioned that your first blushda video went viral (I would have called it lud -n-lud, lud-n-lud ....but it's too late ) i was suddenly reminded of a movie I saw in the sixties, when I was a kid. it was a real square Dragnet type of drama. The cops were investigating a string of mysterious deaths in the wake of these hippies half out of their minds on something, traveling around in their school bus with some Bongos, which unbeknownst to them (in their over- the-top giddy revelry), are an otherwise silent carrier of hepatitis...B I think it was, as the tainted tom's went promiscuously hand-to-hand, from one group of hapless indiscriminate hippies to the next... anyway yeah, viral drum videos was the segway

[@susanbabudro3825]

Steve, You're a good teacher!

[@523938]

Very cool Steve....definitiley fixed it! Thank's!

[@loucontino4804]

Great stuff.

[@yougotgroove]

Hi Steve hope you are well! I finally got this lick feeling fluid....It took me like a year, then I practiced it for about 20 minutes every morning for a week,,,, Covid has allowed this! Anyway....best video out there on this subject....And yes, it can be endless....I am hoping you may do Blushda part three.... Anyway, here is my question.... Opening up that flam and staying on the grid.....Do you think of that right hand not almost as a pick up beat (starting before the one (The left flam accent landing on the one (first note of the grid) ?

[@SteveHolmesDrums]

I would say whatever kind of flam it is- that hand is the note that needs to be on the grid. Left-handed = right is the grace not, left is the actual note that needs to be on the grid, and the opposite.

[@kosmokronos]

Fantastic Stuff, THANK YOU!

[@alexday4118]

Hi Steve I'm a professional amateur this seems like a great dynamic fill idea

[@Horizen3872]

Pretty awesome!! Thank you!