Just "muckin' about!" with 16th note triplet grooves ... Dom!

Rosanna Shuffle

So, here we are .... the famous Porcaro shuffle as played on 'Rosanna' by Toto (which you can find here on the PS Drums Spotify playlist).

This is the groove from the verse - it get's slightly more interesting for the chorus! Enjoy ...

Here is a video of Jeff Porcaro explaining and playing his shuffle. He also mentions the Bonham and Purdie Shuffles that we have already studied plus the 'Bo Diddley' rhythm as well - there's method to this madness I promise!!!!

16th Note Shuffle - Part 2

Ok, so this time we are continuing with the 16th note shuffle theme but varying the bass drum pattern. We have added a bass drum beat to the last shuffled 16th note triplet on beat 1.

Scroll up to part 3 above to see where this has all taken us!

16th Note Shuffle - Part 1

Hi everyone, this is part one of the 16th note triplet shuffle that we've looked at this week. If you remember back to last week's lesson we investigated the idea that 8th note triplets can be sub-divided again into 16th note triplets in the exactly the same way as 'regular' 8th and 16th notes. So, this time we are creating a shuffle but using 16th note triplets instead of 8th note triplets - by removing the 'middle' beat in each grouping of three.

Scroll up to part 2 to vary the bass drum pattern.

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