Drum beat · Advanced

Half-time shuffle drum beat

A shuffle with one backbeat a bar, on 3, and ghost notes between the hats. Hat on the one and the let. The left hand ghosts every trip but the one after the 3.

Tempo: 76 BPM
Level: Advanced 4 of 5
Time signature: 4/4
Feel: Triplets
Run: 25 s · 8 bars
Limbs: Both hands and the kick foot

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The pattern

Half-time shuffle: one row per drum, one column per triplet of a bar of 4/4
Drum	1	trip	let	2	trip	let	3	let	4	trip	let
Hi-hat	x		x	x		x	x	x	x		x
Snare		(x)			(x)		X			(x)
Kick	x							x

Each column is a triplet. x is a hit, a bold X an accent and a small (x) a ghost note.

Plays it twice at 76 BPM.

How to count it

Count: 1 trip let 2 trip let 3 trip let 4 trip let

Kick on 1 and the let of 3; snare on 3, ghost notes on the trip of 1, the trip of 2 and the trip of 4; hi-hat on every beat and the let after it. Said aloud: 1 trip let 2 trip let 3 let 4 trip let

How to practise it

Coming from the shuffle, the kick and the snare change: the kick plays on 1 and the let of 3; the snare plays on 3, ghost notes on the trip of 1, the trip of 2 and the trip of 4.

Start with the hi-hat on its own, on every beat and the let after it.
Add the snare, on 3, ghost notes on the trip of 1, the trip of 2 and the trip of 4.
Add the kick, on 1 and the let of 3.
Count aloud and play it through as DRUMY does: 8 bars at 76 BPM, about 25 seconds.

What DRUMY judges

Each note is judged on when it lands, within 140 ms, and on which drum, not on how hard: the accents and ghost notes are drawn, not judged. All of what DRUMY judges.