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A group of three single strokes where the first note is accented and the second note is a grace note Flam.

Sticking: R-rl-r L-lr-l

Difficulty Level: Advanced

Other names for Tu-Chada also include:

• Dachuda
• Tachada
• Tachuta
• Tajada

Please choose another Hybrid Rudiment below:

• Alternated Cheese Pataflafla
• Alternated Cheese-Ka
• Alternated Pataflafla
• Alternated Pataflaka
• Alternated Pattyacue
• Alternated Swiss Tap Drag
• Alternating Flyz
• Alternating Four Note Swiss Army Triplet
• Alternating Hertas
• Alternating Hertas (with Same Hand Accents)
• Alternating Hertas (with Upbeat Accents)
• Alternating One Handed Tap Drag
• Alternating Pattys
• Alternating Single Stroke Five
• Alternating Single Stroke Five (with Upbeat Accents)
• Alternating Single Stroke Four
• Alternating Single Stroke Nine
• Alternating Single Stroke Seven
• Alternating Single Stroke Six
• Alternating Single Stroke Three
• Alternating Swiss Army Triplet
• Alternating Swiss Flam Drag
• Backward-Eggbeaters
• Beater Paradiddle
• Bee Report
• Berger Lesson 25
• Blurz
• Book Mark
• Book Report
• Book Report (variations)
• Book Report (with Extra Credit)
• Brille Stroke
• Buguda Chickens
• Buzz Flaps
• Buzzadiddle
• Casey Claw
• Change Ups
• Chatachichi
• Cheese
• Cheese 3-2-1
• Cheese Accent
• Cheese Back Flip
• Cheese Berger
• Cheese Chain
• Cheese Chatachichi
• Cheese Chutichuhs
• Cheese Chutra-Cheese
• Cheese Doctoral Thesis
• Cheese Double Paradiddle
• Cheese Double Paradiddle-diddle
• Cheese Double Parafladdle-diddle
• Cheese Dragateenth
• Cheese Drags
• Cheese Five Chatachichi
• Cheese Five Stroke Paradiddle
• Cheese Flama Chuck
• Cheese Flama Chucka Diddle
• Cheese Flama-Diddly
• Cheese Flamacue Swiss
• Cheese Flamalet
• Cheese Flammed Zigiddy Bops
• Cheese Fubars
• Cheese Inverted Threes
• Cheese Para-pa-diddle
• Cheese Paradiddle
• Cheese Paradiddle-diddle
• Cheese Paradiddle-diddle-a
• Cheese Paradiddle-diddle-diddle
• Cheese Paradiddle-Flafla
• Cheese Parafladdle-diddle-diddle
• Cheese Pataflafla
• Cheese Quickity Klotz
• Cheese Quickity Klotz (kicked up a notch)
• Cheese Ripits
• Cheese Roll
• Cheese Shirley Murphy
• Cheese Swiss Double Paradiddle
• Cheese Swiss Triple Paradiddle
• Cheese Triple Paradiddle
• Cheese Triplet Pataflafla
• Cheese Zigiddy Bops
• Cheese-Ka
• Cheese-Single
• Cheesea Flamacue-Diddle
• Cheeseacue
• Cheeseacue Drag
• Cheeseacue Five
• Cheeseafladdle
• Cheeseasingle
• Cheesecha
• Cheesed Deviled Eggs
• Cheesy Pancakes
• Chewbacca-Diddle
• Chinese Fives
• Choo Choo
• Chuck Cheese
• Chumbly Bumkinsteen
• Churruckitahs
• Chut-Cheese
• Chutichuhs
• Chutra-Cheese
• Chutuddas
• Crazy Harry
• Cupcakes
• Delayed Dragadiddle
• Deviled Eggs
• Didda-let
• Diddle Egg Five
• Diddle Herta
• Diddle-Flafla
• Displaced Flamacue
• Displaced Flamacue (with Diddle on Three)
• Displaced Flamacue (with Diddles on One and Three)
• Doctor Rion
• Doctoral Thesis
• Double Accented Single Flam Drag
• Double Dragadiddle
• Double Flam Drag
• Double Flam Drag Diddle
• Double Flam Drag Diddle-diddle
• Double Flam Drag Triple Paradiddle
• Double Flam-Flam Paradiddle
• Double Flamacue
• Double Flammed Mill
• Double Flammed Swiss Army Triplet
• Double Para Flamadiddle
• Double Para Swiss Flam Drags
• Double Paradiddle Flamacue
• Double Paradiddle Flamacue (with Flam on Five)
• Double Paradiddle-diddle
• Double Paradiddle-diddle Nine Stroke Roll
• Double Parafladdle-diddle
• Double Ratamaflam
• Drag Double Paradiddle
• Drag Paradiddle-diddle
• Drag Patty
• Drag Triple Paradiddle
• Dragalet
• Dragateenth
• Eggbeaters
• Elmer Fudd-diddle
• Essay
• Fifty Five
• Five Stroke Diddle Herta
• Five Stroke Dragadiddle
• Five Stroke Flamtas
• Five Stroke Herta
• Five Stroke Paradiddle
• Five Stroke Paradiddle Herta
• Five Stroke Paradiddle Rudy-Mental
• Flaflam Drag
• Flam Accent 2
• Flam Accent Drag
• Flam Accent Roll
• Flam Beaters
• Flam Beats
• Flam Change Ups
• Flam Cheese Paradiddle
• Flam Devils
• Flam Double Paradiddle
• Flam Double Paradiddle-diddle
• Flam Double Paradiddle-diddle Nine Stroke Roll
• Flam Double Parafladdle-diddle
• Flam Drag Chatachichi
• Flam Drag Chutichuhs
• Flam Drag Double Paradiddle
• Flam Drag Double Paradiddle-diddle
• Flam Drag Double Parafladdle-diddle
• Flam Drag Five Stroke Paradiddle
• Flam Drag Flafla
• Flam Drag Flamadiddle
• Flam Drag Flamafladdle
• Flam Drag Paradiddle
• Flam Drag Paradiddle-diddle
• Flam Drag Parafladdle
• Flam Drag Pataflafla-diddle
• Flam Drag Quickity Klotz
• Flam Drag Single
• Flam Drag Triple Paradiddle
• Flam Drag-a-poo
• Flam Dragadiddle-diddle
• Flam Eight Stroke Roll
• Flam Eleven Stroke Roll
• Flam Eleven Triple Paradiddle
• Flam Fifteen Stroke Roll
• Flam Five
• Flam Five Double Drag Diddle
• Flam Five Double Paradiddle
• Flam Five Double Paradiddle-diddle
• Flam Five Double Parafladdle-diddle
• Flam Five Drag Diddle
• Flam Five Drag Diddle-diddle
• Flam Five Drag Paradiddle
• Flam Five Flafla
• Flam Five Paradiddle
• Flam Five Paradiddle-diddle
• Flam Five Patty
• Flam Five Quickity Klotz
• Flam Five Single
• Flam Five Superdiddle
• Flam Five Tapafladdle
• Flam Five Triple Paradiddle
• Flam Flamalet
• Flam Four Stroke Roll
• Flam Fourteen Stroke Roll
• Flam Hertas
• Flam Invention 1
• Flam Jiggers
• Flam Mill Drag
• Flam Muppets
• Flam Nine Double Paradiddle
• Flam Nine Double Paradiddle-diddle
• Flam Nine Stroke Roll
• Flam Nine Triple Paradiddle
• Flam Paradiddle (variations)
• Flam Paradiddle Five
• Flam Paradiddle-diddle-a
• Flam Paradiddle-diddle-diddle
• Flam Parafladdle-diddle
• Flam Parafladdle-diddle-diddle
• Flam Puguda
• Flam Roll
• Flam Seven Double Paradiddle
• Flam Seven Double Paradiddle-diddle
• Flam Seven Stroke Roll
• Flam Seven Triple Paradiddle
• Flam Seven-Ups
• Flam Seventeen Stroke Roll
• Flam Six Stroke Roll
• Flam Sixteen Stroke Roll
• Flam Stutters
• Flam Tap Double Paradiddle
• Flam Tap Paradiddle
• Flam Tap Paradiddle-diddle
• Flam Tap Triple Paradiddle
• Flam Ten Stroke Roll
• Flam Thirteen Stroke Roll
• Flam Thirteen Triple Paradiddle
• Flam Triple Paradiddle
• Flam Triple Stroke Roll
• Flam Twelve Stroke Roll
• Flam Upbeat Diddles
• Flam Upbeat Five
• Flam-a-Flam
• Flam-Flam
• Flam-Flam Flamadiddle
• Flam-Flam Tap
• Flam-Four Flams
• Flam-Single
• Flam-Single (with Cheese on One)
• Flam-Single (with Cheese on Three)
• Flama Chuck
• Flama Chucka Diddle
• Flama Diddle Diddle
• Flama Flamacue-Diddle
• Flama Flive-a-Tap
• Flama Swiss Army Triplet
• Flama-Diddly
• Flama-Flama-Flam Flam
• Flama-Flama-Flam Tap
• Flama-Singles
• Flama-Tap-Flafla
• Flamacue a cue
• Flamacue a Diddle
• Flamacue a Flafla
• Flamacue Drag
• Flamacue Five
• Flamacue Swiss
• Flamacue-Diddle
• Flamadiddle Flam-Flam
• Flamalet
• Flamasingle
• Flamatapz
• Flamdiddle
• Flamill Drags
• Flammed 3-2-1
• Flammed Alternated Swiss Tap Drag
• Flammed Alternating Single Stroke Four
• Flammed Alternating Single Stroke Nine
• Flammed Alternating Single Stroke Seven
• Flammed Alternating Single Stroke Six
• Flammed Alternating Single Stroke Three
• Flammed Backward-Eggbeaters
• Flammed Chinese Fives
• Flammed Double Mill
• Flammed Doubles
• Flammed Eggbeaters
• Flammed Five Stroke Paradiddle
• Flammed Lesson 25
• Flammed Para-pa-diddle
• Flammed Ravioli
• Flammed Ripits
• Flammed Shirley Murphy
• Flammed Single Ratamacue
• Flammed Single Stroke Four
• Flammed Single Stroke Nine
• Flammed Single Stroke Seven
• Flammed Single Stroke Six
• Flammed Single Stroke Three
• Flammed Swiss Tap Drag
• Flammed Triplets
• Flammed Zigiddy Bops
• Flamtaplets
• Flamtas
• Flim-Swiss Triplet
• Flive-a-Flam
• Flive-Flafla-Tap
• Flow Five
• Flyz
• Four Flam-Flam-Flamadiddle
• Four Note Swiss Army Triplet
• Four Stroke Cheese Fubars
• Four Stroke Flamaruff
• Four Stroke Fubars
• Four Stroke Ruff Double Paradiddle
• Four Stroke Ruff Double Ratamacue
• Four Stroke Ruff Inverted Paradiddle
• Four Stroke Ruff Paradiddle
• Four Stroke Ruff Reverse Paradiddle
• Four Stroke Ruff Single Ratamacue
• Four Stroke Ruff Triple Paradiddle
• Four Stroke Ruff Triple Ratamacue
• Four Stroke Ruffadiddle-diddle
• Four Stroke Ruffadiddle-Tap
• French Flams
• Fubars
• Fubars Fives
• Fufives
• Funky Cheese
• Funky Cheese Inverts
• Fuzz Taps
• Gallops
• Ghost Flams
• Grandmas
• Grandpas
• Grilled Cheese
• Herta
• Hertas (with Same Hand Accents)
• Hertas (with Upbeat Accents)
• Hulka Helicopter
• Invert Cheese Patty
• Invert Flam Fours
• Invert Patty
• Inverted Book Report
• Inverted Cheese
• Inverted Cheese Flam Tap
• Inverted Cheese Flama Chuck
• Inverted Cheese Flama-Diddly
• Inverted Cheese Paradiddle-diddle
• Inverted Double Paradiddle-diddle
• Inverted Dragadiddle
• Inverted Flam Double Paradiddle-diddle
• Inverted Flam Drag
• Inverted Flam Drag-a-poo
• Inverted Flam Parafladdle-diddle
• Inverted Flam Tap Paradiddle-diddle
• Inverted Flama Chuck
• Inverted Flama-Diddly
• Inverted Flama-Singles
• Inverted Flamacue Drag
• Inverted Inverts
• Inverted Paradiddle Patty
• Inverted Parafladdle-diddle
• Inverted Swiss Grinders
• Inverted Tap Flam Seven
• Inverted Threes
• Inverted Triple Stroke Roll
• Irish Five
• Kramer
• Macs
• Malf Accent
• Malf Paradiddle
• Malf Tap
• Malfs
• NF
• Nice n Easy
• Nuttchada
• Octadiddle-tron
• Odd 3 Even 3
• One Handed Five
• One Handed Flam Drag
• One Handed Flam Five
• One Handed Tap Drag
• Opies
• Overeasy
• Para Flam-Flam
• Para Flamadiddle
• Para-pa-diddle
• Parabuzzle
• Paradiddle (with Cheese on Four)
• Paradiddle Diddle Herta
• Paradiddle Five
• Paradiddle Flamtas
• Paradiddle Herta
• Paradiddle-diddle-a
• Paradiddle-diddle-diddle
• Paradiddle-Flafla
• Parafladdle
• Parafladdle-diddle
• Parafladdle-diddle-diddle
• Pataflaka
• Patty Five
• Patty Flam Tap
• Patty Flamacue Five
• Patty Invert
• Patty Seven
• Patty Six
• Pattya Diddle
• Pattya Flam Tap
• Pattya Invert
• Pattyacue
• Plutnduh
• Poly Flam Drag
• Puguda
• Quickity Klotz
• Quickity Klotz (kicked up a notch)
• Ratama Swiss Cheese
• Ratamaflam
• Ratamaswiss
• Ravioli
• Reverse Book Report
• Reverse Cheese Paradiddle
• Reverse Dragadiddle
• Reverse Five
• Reverse Flam Paradiddle
• Reverse Paradiddle-Flafla
• Reverse Shirley Murphy
• Ripits
• Rudy-Mental
• Same Hand Chatachichi
• Same Hand Cheese Paradiddle
• Same Hand Five Stroke Herta
• Same Hand Flam Accent
• Same Hand Flam Paradiddle
• Same Hand Flam-Flam
• Same Hand Paradiddle
• Same Hand Reverse Paradiddle
• Same Hand Single Flammed Mill
• Seinfeld
• Shirley Murphy
• Side Cheeseadiddle
• Side Flamadiddle
• Single Backs
• Single Flam Drag
• Single Stroke Five (with Upbeat Accents)
• Single Stroke Five-a-Flam
• Single Stroke Flam Five
• Slevens
• Slurred Drag
• Slurred Eleven Stroke Roll
• Slurred Fifteen Stroke Roll
• Slurred Five Stroke Roll
• Slurred Four Stroke Roll
• Slurred Fourteen Stroke Roll
• Slurred Nine Stroke Roll
• Slurred Seven Stroke Roll
• Slurred Seventeen Stroke Roll
• Slurred Six Stroke Roll
• Slurred Sixteen Stroke Roll
• Slurred Ten Stroke Roll
• Slurred Thirteen Stroke Roll
• Slurred Twelve Stroke Roll
• Swiss Cheese
• Swiss Double Paradiddle
• Swiss Flam Drag Flam Tap
• Swiss Grinders
• Swiss Kick
• Swiss Pug
• Swiss Tap Drag
• Swiss Triple Paradiddle
• Swiss Tu-Chada
• Swissacue
• Swissadiddle
• Tap Flam
• Tap Flam Seven
• Tapadiddle
• Three Stroke Ruff Double Paradiddle
• Three Stroke Ruff Inverted Paradiddle
• Three Stroke Ruff Paradiddle
• Three Stroke Ruff Reverse Paradiddle
• Three Stroke Ruff Triple Paradiddle
• Three Stroke Ruffadiddle-diddle
• Three Stroke Ruffadiddle-Tap
• Threesome Flam Combo
• Threesomes
• Tri-Flam
• Tri-Octaddiddle
• Triple Dragadiddle
• Triple Flam Drag Diddle
• Triple Flam-Flam Paradiddle
• Triple Flammed Swiss Army Triplets
• Triple Herta
• Triple Para Swiss Flam Drags
• Triple Ratamaflam
• Triple Stroke Tap Drag
• Triple-acue
• Triplet Pataflafla
• Tu-Cha-Chada
• Tu-Chacha
• Tu-Chada
• Tu-Charles
• Tu-Cheese
• Upbeat Diddles
• Upbeat Five Stroke Roll
• Vladiment
• Walt-Diddles
• Zigiddy Bops