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What is a Half-Time Drum Beat?
Half-Time Shuffle Drum Beat
Half-Time Shuffle Drum Beat Pattern
Half-Time Shuffle Back Beat on 3 Drum Pattern
Half-Time Shuffle Without Bass Drum on 1 Pattern
Half-Time Shuffle with Bass Drum on 4 Pattern
Half-Time Shuffle with Bass Drum on 1 Pattern
Half-Time Shuffle with Bass Drum on 1 Variation
Half-Time Shuffle Variation
Half-Time Shuffle Basic Pattern
Using Ghost Notes for Drum Patterns
Using Hands for Ghost Notes in Drum Patterns
Ghost Note Drum Pattern Variation
Half-Time Shuffle Hi-Hat Pattern
Half-Time Shuffle Pattern with Toms
Half-Time Shuffle Overview
Summary: It's important to be versatile at drums so that you can play all sorts of beats. Learn the half-time shuffle from our drumming expert in this free video clip.
David Pakman is a longtime drummer trained in rock, funk, jazz, blues and music theory, and is also a casual piano/keyboard player. He has played with two alternative/modern rock bands...read more
"So, to understand the Half-Time Shuffle, the half-time is all relative and what this means is that in normal twelve-eight counting, where we would play normally a regular full speed pattern, would look like this: one, two, three four. One, two, three, four. What we're doing is we're just going to take that back beat and just play it on three. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. One, two, three. So, it gives the feel that it's going only half as fast. So, we'll play a couple measures with back beats on two and four and then switch to the half-time feel. So, that half-time feel is brought on by the fact that in the standard twelve-eight counting, we're playing a back beat just on three. Of course, depending on our counting, it's only half-time related to playing twice as many back beats. So, it's all depending on what time signature we're in, but this whole series, we'll look at those types of beats."
eHow Article: Half-Time Shuffle Drum Beat
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