Hi. I am Wes Crawford and we’re now going to talk about shuffle rhythms. Shuffle rhythms are based in triplets and we’ve talked before about a blues rhythm something like this based in triplets [Demonstration] One triplet, two triplet, three triplet, four triplet.
Well, if you speed up the triplets it gets very difficult to play really fast [Demonstration]. It can sound real clutter even if you can do it. So, what we would find is if you want to do a triplet kind of a feel and a triplet kind of a subdivision that’s faster, leave out the middle triplet and what we have is a shuffle rhythm. So you get, One triplet, two triplet, three triplet, four triplet; One triplet, two triplet, three triplet, four triplet; One triplet, two triplet, three triplet, four triplet.
See this bounce, you’re hitting on the beat every time so you’re showing where the beat is but you're subdividing and having this bounce to it too [Demonstration]. Same beat that we have been doing in lots of examples are bass drum on one, snare on two, bass drum on three, snare on four and so forth. But now we’re putting this triplet feeling that’s a bit quicker on the top and we’re doing this bouncy kind of feel called the shuffle feel
Now, if you learn the one I was just playing [Demonstration] and you learn to play the bass drum on all four beats [Demonstration], you probably have now learned the shuffle beats that you use in well over half of the songs that you’ll ever encounter. Again, you can vary the bass drum and the snare drum in ways that you might enjoy and ways that you might here and try to copy. You’ll hear something like [Demonstration]. I just wanted to give you few examples how you can more from one to the other, and you can go back and try to work on some of these too but that’s a shuffle rhythm.
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