I used to use this technique a lot in my first band. I was playing with musicians far above my level, and I often had to play in odd time signatures, but being ill-educated and ill-disciplined I wasn't able to count and play (even in 4/4).

I still often do it, feels more natural to play to the melody than to be counting an unusual time signature, it's as if it returns your focus to the piece at hand.

By the way, what snare was that? It sounded great. It looked very small, as did the hats.

You can see him play this tune in a Frankfurt clinic in a video on his Drummerworld page.

And for UK DC-ers, Gavin will be at Drummer Live this year.

Agreed, he's brilliant.