One thing I would mention about this type of beat is that you don’t have to go all in on it for an entire tune, you can use it to spice up just a section of a down tempo song, or just throw in some triplets here and there to imply the shuffle groove.
Hands down the best (and tastiest) teacher on Yt. I started to play drums about a year ago and you have helped me immensely to improve my feel. Thanks for putting out this quality of content for free!
Can't get enough of the half-time feel! It feels so good, always starting on the one and keeping the snare on the three. It just frees up so much space and sounds really good.
Great video! I’ve been playing drums for 30 years and I learned a lot from this video , the teaching method is clear and concise. Never too old to learn something new.
This is the best half-time shuffle tutorial I have found online (and I've explored many in my quest to get my head around it!) Thank you for the exceptional detail and depth of your approach ❤
This is the best drum video of 2024, the shuffle has always been challenging to figure out, thanks for breaking it down with examples and building limb by limb, appreciate all the variations and transcriptions too. THANKS JEFF!!!!!
Great vidéo Jeff! I've been improving the shuffle for many years now and that's very true that playing with different kick patterns is a good way to get better at it, and not get stiff because of the habit of playing the same old pattern!
Thank you! I usually try to do it on a practice pad and it works, but it lacks the different motion required on the hi hats.The accented note on 3 always lands perfectly, but it´s still quite hard to maintain the ghost notes lol. Weird tip: humming out loud the bass drum pattern has helped tremendously.
Jeff, you’re a natural born teacher. Thank you so much for this, it’s one of those that’s so hard to get right and you’ve just made it click for me. Cheers!
Man, your bass drum sounds awesome! I have this half time shuffle ensconced in muscle memory, but not at full speed, or sounding as awesome as yours. Thanks for the vid ;~)
Awesome! I'm going to call this my "Autumn Shuffle", because you posted this video on the Autumn Equinox. Hopefully it doesn't take me too many seasons to work this up! LOL
Great vid! I'd also recommend for people who are finding even beginning to put the ghost notes in, challenging, just to play it even more simply by putting the snare on 3 and the bass drum on 1. Just a very very simple half time shuffle with no ghost notes to begin. If you're not well rooted in triplet based music, simply getting that swing feel can be challenging so this lets you just focus on that. And if that's too challenging then start playing some basic blues beats where your HH or Ride is playing every note of the triplet. Seems like nobody talks about blues beats anymore...lol. Also learn to count. It really helps if you can count this when you play. Personally I don't like the "tri puh let" count. Too wordy. "1 + a 2 + a" (spoken as "one and ah") is much easier in my opinion. Virtually every non drummer musician is going to count traditionally too so it just makes it easier. Plus you always know where the one is.
I've seen some drummers attempt it in struggle (hard) but they normally play with two pedals hooked up to one bass drum - somewhat ham fisted , and that's ok because they aren't groove oriented players.
Fun fact. Jason Mc Gerr plays on the nice Death cab for cutie tune actually not a standard half time shuffle on the hats like in this example. He plays the hihat foot inbetween the quarter notes instead which sounds like he plays triplets with the sticks.
I didn't watch the full video, I kept restarting the video because this beat goes hard. The title of this video should be "Why the half-time schuffle goes harder than last time" 😭✌️
Thanks, I have a question about Rosanna shuffle: I've been learning to put the kick from in the 2nd measure on the "let" of 1, instead of the 2, but you show it kicking on the 2. I'm still a beginner drummer, playing for less than two years, but over time I've worked on Purdie, Fool in the Rain, and now trying to build Rosanna. Keeping the ghost snare notes in the exact right spot has been tricky for me as I speed it up.
Im a guitarist and I like to say thankyou as I'm not a drummer but I listen to the drum line. Reasons why I clicked to watch video 1 to see what you are doing and to get a general idea. 2 I'm trying to learn poly rythams and to play outside of 3/4 4/4 time and try out to learn 5/4 7/4 timings Do you use sayings like" pass the butter to the left hand side "for example. I'm going to have to watch this video again as I'm usually thinking the miss is on the 4 not the 3 as music shown. Is there something to watch out for or am I missing something plain and simple. All I know is that odd time signatures are and can be confusing if usually common time when just busking. So going to look at what other videos you have to offer. If possible please reply with links to save time thankyou
I have a question theirs a song I want to do, and it says copywrite. I know you do covers sometimes. But how do i get a license? To do a drum cover? Any advice?
@1:20 that song 'grape vine fires' is a terrible example.. on the record it sounds like a loop and when they play it live.. it's either acoustic or if they have the drummer.. the drummer plays 1/8th notes on the hi hat and seems to struggle just with that . maybe no one mentions these bands because they are just copping sounds and it's far from timeless or innovative.
