DRUMMERS: THE PURDIE BONHAM PORCARO HALF TIME SHUFFLE DRUM LESSON 

After 38 years, I FINALLY understand the half-time shuffle! Thank you Bonzoleum!!!

My drum instructor saved the 1 e & a for 16ths and used 1 ta ta & ta ta 2 ta ta & ta ta ... for the triplets. Worked well for me and separates them in my brain. Although I only use this for learning the part, changes over to feel once the muscles take over. Enjoyed your break down of this famous shuffle. 49 years playing and still learning. Love your break down of four sticks as well, caused me to pause and re listen to that one.

You do an OUTSTANDING job of explaining what, AND WHY its important to see this the right way- I've been fortunate enough to have some great instruction and you're up there with the best

Finally someone that actually breaks it down, one beat at a time. Thank you.

Dude countless youtube videos that just glaze it over, yet you go into full ( funny) detail like I would my self , finally grasped it. Thank you!!!

By Jove with the help of this vid at the age of 59 I can finally do the Purdy shuffle!!! Thanks so much Terry 😘😘

At the age of 62 I think I have forgotten more than I have retained in both the technical realm as well as the ability. Thank you for helping reeducate an old dog. God bless.

I do not drum but this guy could explain anything to anyone and they would come away with a new understanding.

A great psychological approach to teaching.

Your halftime shuffle breakdown just blew my mind and soooooo many things just clicked. Thank you for this!

It bugged me for years how to play the half time shuffle. After some focused effort I cracked it and can do it standing on my head blindfolded now. Well worth the effort and like so much in drumming once you create that muscle memory it's there for good. Top work Terry as always

I've only just begun playing drums 7 months ago but I understand how important this all is. ...even if much of it goes over my head. I'm learning a lot, Terry! Good stuff.

wow man that snare sounds great

From the Purdie Shuffle to the Stewart Copeland's reggae beat and everything in between ,Rock on brother Hey to George 🤟🤘✌

You just gave me an incredibly useful tip for getting the snare ghost notes locked in on this groove, thanx buddy your a gem.

this is the video that finally helped me understand this after so many. Why did I not just start at the legendary bonzoleum

Pédagogue , praticien , voilà enfin un drummer qui insiste sur tous les mécanismes de rythmes shuffles .Un GRAND MERCI BONZOLEUM

You taught me so much including Fool in the rain, so THANK YOU!! This video I’ve never seen but not only are you an incredible drum teacher, your funny as hell too!😂🙏

I just restarted playing ..long story.. Thank you for all the great videos. I look forward to learning the bonzos right foot technique. The other day I'm standing in the kitchen and my leg is aching something terrible...and it hits me ! "That damn drum set." Thanks man!

Great video, Terry! I remember you teaching me this in 1998 and the thing that always threw me off was that damned little ghost note after three. Now, I use this in my playing all the time and don’t even think about it. The key to learning this technique is exactly as you explained; break it down into segments and drill, drill, drill it into your muscle memory and don’t introduce the next segment until you have nailed the previous ones. It takes time but before you know it, you’re incorporating it into all of your music and not even thinking about it at all! In the beginning, it’s important to count. If you follow this discipline, you will soon be playing it by feel.

This is like the best video ever. Definitely jumping right away trying to get the feel of triplets is so hard at list for me, thanks, I’m going to practice now.

Thanks for breaking this out. Great way to teach Bonzo. Cheers Rhodester

Killer breakdowns. Love your style and delivery on these lessons!

This Video is really helping me your a great teacher thank you very much Randy O

That’s it Terry I must have watched your video over a 100 times man until I got it right 💯🎼🥁🌲⛄️

You are an awesome teacher. Thank you for all your knowledge. I've been drumming for nearly 30 years and you're helping me look at things in a different way! Thank you! Btw, Dunkin Donuts is awesome.

I've been practicing this shuffle for a couple weeks now, i hope to get there soon, thanks a lot for the perfect and clear explanation, you made my day, i even talk to my wife about this shuffle and she has no idea what I'm talking about, that's how obsessed I am right now haha, i want to record this drum cover for my drum covers channel, i hope to do so, and thanks to you i probably will, THANK YOU!

That's the best sounding snare you have and you got rid of it.Thats the sound,that thing is golden.Please tune your others like that.ITS THE BOMB BROTHER.!!!

im not a drummer but just enjoy music and how its made.. I have been binge watching ur vids and love what you do... really fun, informative and entertaining...great job man!!

Outstanding tuition Terry! Whoever won that snare drum is a VERY lucky person.

I can’t believe you referenced Shakes the Clown! Binky can’t even throw a pie straight!

You are the best teacher thanks, this is so helpful, you are absolutely right , I have been playing shuffles and they don’t sound great . Now I know exactly what to do. Can you tell me again the name of the snare please, it sounds fantastic. Thanks 🙏

awsome man ,, you are brilliant and explain the technique in a simple breakdown that can be understood .. i would love to have lessons with you .. and a good funny sense of humour love it .. keep it up my friend .

Very helpful Terry. This helped me bridge the gap on this shuffle.

Wow great lesson. Well explained. Like the way you lay it out. Thanks. Lmk if u ever come to Lehigh county Pa. I would go in a heartbeat

This was one of the most challenging things for me to learn, but it's actually not that difficult when explained well. Anyone who knows how to count can learn this. I'm not particularly good drummer, I'm average at best, and my technique is quite modest - and it took me 3 days to master this groove, working 20-30 minutes every day. Don't try to work on this in one day, because there's a little thing called muscle memory. On the first day, just practice triplets and take care that every right is accented, and each left is ghosted. After about 10 minutes, add the accent on beat 3 (before a friend explained to me, I thought the accent was going on 'and of 3' instead on 3 - unison with the right hand), and practice that for another 10-15 minutes. On the second day, remove the ghost note from the first triplet, and work on the ghost note that follows the accent, and try playing with more feel, the way shuffles should be played. On the third day, add kick pattern, work on open and closed hi-hat (open on the let of the first triplet, close on 2), and if necessary, divide the beat into two parts - before the accent and after the accent. Kick is in unison with the right hand - it's on the first two rights - on 1 and let (ONE-trip-LET), then before the accent - on the let of 2 (two-trip-LET), and then on the let of 4 (four-trip-LET). It can be tricky at first, but it's so fun to play this groove😀 P.S. Terry, your snare drum sounds beautiful!

I love playing along to these videos.

Thank you for this! Helpful and entertaining

I've never thought about the shuffle this way before! Thanks for an excellent and fun breakdown

I think you've done like 6 half time shuffle videos now - yet I learn something new from each one, thanks again!

you are the best!!! simply genius the way you put things!!!! I wish I could go to your clinic. Either way, Best from Portugal.

that snare sounds great

Really like how you break it up man, hope I can get it now.. no one else that I've seen (Steve Taylor, Rob Brown.. even Bernard Perdie) thought to include the bass for initial feel.. you really think outside the box and I always enjoy your videos, I'm so grateful, cheers dude 😜🤘🏼

Your site is addictive 😊

You made me laugh and I learned something. Thank you!

Vintage bonzoleum, the wife was getting worried about me laughing out loud.

This is awesome ! I have been looking for a detailed breakdown of purdie. Thanks!

That was an awesome lesson. Thank you!

Terry you have helped so much thanks

Killer man, loved it

Excellent explanation.

Great video. I love your hair cut.😊😊😊😜🎧🌻🌷

Not a drummer, but I find your videos the most entertaining on you tube at the mo! Ps, you're the best drummer outside of the UK.😁

Love your videos! You are fun as hell to watch too. It's rare that I see someone that makes me think about what a hoot they would be to do shrooms with, and you are definitely one of the few... I'd need an oxygen bottle!

The iced latte , brilliant, funniest drum guy in the world, brilliant

Where you based out of my crazy friend I have my practice pad watching & working on the ghost note placement on this groove , I think I have it to perfected anyway waiting for them to unload 13 skids here takes all day life in the trucking industry 💯🎼🥁🚚🤔✌️

Thank you, this helps so much!

Love that snare sound, Terry!

Great video sir!

Great tutorial again. Could you consider running thru a few cool fills that run from the bernard perdie shuffle and return cleanly to the shuffle? Keep em comin! Cheers

Great lesson!

I'm just finding these and they're so great. I love these videos. The drum professor can take a flying feck. This here is legit. 2019!!!! Yay.....

thanks for demystifying this groove.

Man that bass and snare just got it. I just got an emperor and ambassador but I'm having a hard time getting even a decent sound out of my 26 let alone that sound.

I never subscribed but I did just now

What an interesting video! I watched the whole thing and I don’t even play drums. Lol. I do play a little guitar tho

Nice breakdowns Terry

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Can't express it enough how much I enjoy your videos. "It's like being a part of Terry's world" for a bit! Ps did you see the John Bonham ride for sale on the enterweb? 18,000$

So, Dunkin' Donuts Iced Latte, then? ANYWAY! Love your videos, Man. Please keep em' comin'! ...and have a great time at the clinic!

enjoyed the video, what are the hi hats you are using and the crash, 602 blue label you said ?

Jeff p was just amazing, musical , groovy, modest, a real star, sadly missed

Dude...I love your instruction! Add some Rum to your Dunkin Donuts coffee and your golden!!

Terry, you should listen to the song Grapevine Fires by Death Cab For Cutie. You might not like the song but it’s worth listening to the half time shuffle in it. Also, home at last by steely dan is a classic half time shuffle song

Would love to be in Lancaster for that...was there years ago...went at the wrong time😕

Thanks Terry! ! !

Man your so funny hahahahaha😀😁 I like the all of your lesson

Can you take the Purdie then go into fool into the rain? Videowise please

I remember October, 2017. I was 15 years old and a sophomore.

great video

Terry when will you be at Drums Ect. again? I would love to meet you in person. Great job! Keep it up.

Thanks Terry

I'm sure it was said already, but right brain is left handed, the artist. Left brain is right handed, Chinese arithmetic. Peace and Love!

Right on with the references above. Another song that uses it is Freeway Jam by Jeff Beck.

Why are you not Led Zeppelin's new Drummer instead of Jason, you are a rockstar thank you for your help I'm just starting to dabble in this Shuffle, awesome

thank you!

How many sets of drums do you have?

Yes me too your a classic dont forget the proton pill (Ritalin)as a adhd drummer myself i can relate but we have to learn to slow it down be spareing

You're a trip Terry. Super funny and full of knowledge. Let us know if you ever kidnap Jimmy Page ;)

Would that it were so simple. Thanks, from the not-as-distant past.

Very explications .

If Keith Moon and King Buzzo had a love child (by some miracle of weird-science)... I don't know why...the image just floods my mind.

Pleeease i need that snare can anyone tell me that exact model, i know it's ludwig but that exact one!

Good recording sound! You can play and speak and both drums and voice are clear! Drumeo check this out!

Porcaro's is by far the tastiest and hardest to play

love it

heres an easy way shuffle is counted 1a2a3a4a play snare on 3.done.ghost notes and kik and hi hat variences make this groove tricky

Some day Oct 7th will become famous

I’m now watching this may 8 2019 - this distant future

Terry "Drum Daddy" Keating