Purdie Shuffle - Drum Groove

This is the classic Purdie Shuffle drum pattern. It's presented using the clock or rhythm wheel method in order to facilitate the understanding of what is played by each limb. This is also very useful to understand what differents grooves have in common or not.

This groove is sometimes called half-time shuffle. Beside Bernard Purdie himself, Jeff Porcaro made this beat famous with the song Rosanna played by his band Toto. There's lot of variations possible with this groove, so just think of the one presented as a basic framework to develop your ideas.

I designed the Groove series to be a complementary approach to the traditional musical notation. It present some advantages to understand the structure of repetitive rhythms. The geometric shape of the rhythm is immediately visible and the properties are then easily recognized.

My goal with this series was to create a learning tool where the musician can spend more time practicing the rhythm and less time trying to figure out what to play.

To build this video series, i'm using After Effects for all the animations and Ableton Live to record, sequence and process the drum sounds.

Drum Grooves Collection :

If you want to learn more about the usefulness of that representation, there's a great book by Godfried T. Toussaint
called "The Geometry of Musical Rhythm".

[onebadhombre]

Don’t worry about them ghost notes! Ain’t nothing but rebound! 😂❤️🙌

[vaughnmiller]

Drumset fundamentals, really really cool visual here this will help out a lot of young drummers. I hope there hip to what's going on here and take advantage of it. I wish I had this 50 years ago...

[cresk]

The legendary Purdie half-time shuffle, and this is a great way to practice all the tricky ghost notes with the snare while maintaining the hi-hat rhythm followed by the kick drum in between. It's such a clever and relaxed shuffle, which only Bernard Purdie can do it on his own unique way. It took me 3 days to master this one little tricky groove. Once mastered, it really plays and feels wonderful on the drums for a fairly long time.

[electrosnerd]

I've watched lots of 'how to play the Purdie shuffle' videos but this is visually the best

[avalonnuovo]

This entire youtube channel is a masterpiece of information design!!

[obloquy]

I can genuinely say this sped up the learning process for me dramatically. Thanks for this!

[FacsTwo]

Play it x1.25 you get Fool in the rain 😍

[TDPowers]

The sound quality here is excellent. Helps so much!! Thank you!!!

[laura]

You just GOTTA love the drums, man; ALL FOUR LIMBS flailing at the same time in perfect, rhythmic harmony. Amazing. 😍

[rodney]

To the maker of this and the many other grooves, thank you so very much!

[dustingrant]

This approach to learning the Purdie shuffle is brilliant 👏

[BrianTCollins]

If you made this into an interactive app, you'd sell a lot of downloads. This is a great way to learn!

[blacjack]

I've been a professional musician for year's playing guitar and keyboards.
This channel has opened my eyes to the world of the drum set.
All this time, I never knew what it was that made drummer's so special, now I know.
Thank you so much for this channel.
I'm 60, but feel like getting a trap kit, now. LOL

[bernhardtmitdt]

Hi there, great presentation of basic stuff. Suggestion: play each part alone for 4 bars each, then begin with bass part, add hihat after a few bars, add snare and so on. Would be helpful.

[hectornava]

The most helpful video for me on this!

[JamGuruMusic]

please make every video ever with this visual aid. you're really awesome for thinking of this

[bac]

This visual method for learning a rhythm is exactly what I needed. Will you be making more of these? Thanks for sharing!

[lucijaluca]

This is great, i just went thru your playlist its such a good way to learn these grooves.Keep them coming please 😭

[TalkinAboutTheDude]

Using this as a backing track for almost anything... just seems to have the subdivisions that allow for a lot.

[midinerd]

I love the velocity=radius mapping in the viz. this is tasty