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Song grooves
· Simplified drum grooves in the style of famous songs — not exact transcriptions.
Blues and shuffle grooves are played on a triplet grid: long–short, long–short. Once the shuffle feel clicks, you will hear it everywhere.
The style in numbers (from our 5 grooves)
- Tempo range
- 86–162 BPM
- Typical tempo
- 120 BPM
- Most common groove
- shuffle (3/5)
- Grooves with ghost notes
- 40%
- Shuffle or triplet feel
- 100%
- Time signatures
- 12/8
Blues & shuffle songs
- Pride and Joy Stevie Ray Vaughan · 120 BPM
- Rosanna Toto · 86 BPM
- Sweet Home Chicago The Blues Brothers · 110 BPM
- La Grange ZZ Top · 162 BPM
- Fool in the Rain Led Zeppelin · 130 BPM
Typical blues & shuffle drum patterns
The grooves most songs in this genre are built on. Learn these and the rest are small variations.
shuffle · Easy
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half-time shuffle · Intermediate
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