Gregg Bissonette’s Signature Drum Lick

Drumeo Festival w/ Steve Smith, Jojo Mayer, Tommy Igoe, Benny Greb, Anika Nilles, & more: ► The blushda has become one of Gregg Bissonette’s signature licks. If you aren’t familiar with the rudiment, it’s a left flam followed by a right-right-left (rLRRL). In 1982, Gregg had just moved to LA and heard one of his drum heroes, Vinnie Colaiuta playing this lick at an Encino club called The Flying Jib. “I thought…what is that sticking?” He didn’t know for years. But eventually