Introduction to Drums: The Shuffle
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- Drummer LaFrae Sci describes the shuffle as the heartbeat of the Blues. Learn more about the rhythm, its history, and its rudiments.
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LaFrae Sci - Drums
Eric Suquet - Director
Bill Thomas - Director of Photography
Richard Emery - Production Assistant
Seton Hawkins - Producer
Theme music composed and performed by Eli Yamin.
Recorded April 9, 2013
I played the drums literally decades ago and am about to start playing again at age 65. I am very excited about it. I love this video. Thank you Ms LaFrae Sci for your excellent teaching and inspiration.
Great! How are you doing? Have you stuck at it?
A silly method? IT IS THE WAY MUSIC SHOULD BE TAUGHT!!! In a physical/ philosophical, inspiring way, beyond theory and technique, music derives from and is a form of LIFE. Thank you so much! Excellent on all!! May God bless you! Many cheers from Greece!!!
Excellent lesson. Especially how she started by teaching the pulse of the groove, which is way more important than how you count it and is a sadly overlooked aspect of a lot of music teaching.
i learned boom boom today - i will add that to my repertoire
The advanced class is Boom bang a bang, by Lulu, now with 30,000% more demonstration and minimal yackety yack.
Boom boom.. boom BOOM..
Clear, concise explanation, interesting and unique perspective on how to get the feeling behind the shuffle
It is very good point of view, that the shuffle is the heartbeat of the blues. This video revealed so much for me :) thanks!
Drums are really fun. :)
Why am I JUST finding these videos. The teachers are amazing. First Sherri now Ms. Sci,both are fabulous
If Bin playing drums for over 40 years and you just taught me a few things .... thank you I can always learn something 👌
This series is dope, picking up tons of good instruction. Thank you Lincoln Center.
What a wonderful teacher LaFrae is. She finds a way to teach soul!
What a lovely soul, informative and passionate.
Right? Always a pleasure to listen to a beautiful human being. That’s what took me to Jazz at Lincoln Center to begin with - listening to Wynton Marsalis, a man I can unreservedly call one of the most beautiful people in the world. Watch his Q&A vids if you get a chance.
Can't believe I've only just now found this series. So cool!
Best explanation I’ve ever heard
So glad I found you Lafrae! You are the Queen of the rimshot. I recently bought Boogaloo to Beck albeit for me at a sad moment. What an album and your drum work was fantabulous! The Doctor will live on…👏🌹🇦🇺✌️
Great info here...well organized and clearly presented...many younger players today just don't know how to play a shuffle...this video really is spot on...
I'm Russian, I hardly speak English, and I don't play drums. I just wanted to understand the rhythm of the shuffle better and accidentally came across this video. And I understood everything, not knowing the language! This is how any teacher should teach. Perfect!
Thanks
Thanks so much from the CLE! I"m using this on Monday to help my fourth graders learn another shuffle pattern.
So basic and clear. Thanks!
This helped me so much! Thank you. Embody the beat!
Great lesson. You explained the ride beautifully.
Great Lesson. It's becoming a lost art in Rock n Roll. My two Favorite rock shufflers are Chris Layton and Frank Beard.
this explanation is very clear! the groove at the end is very strong. excellent video!
I wish you all the best. You explain things clearly and concisely with out any ego trip like others who are only to promote themselves. All power to you.....
Excellent ! The best explanation.I got it.
you teach very well, i just got my first set i'm 61
Great video and explanation. Love playing shuffles!
Thank you for breaking it down this way. Very helpful.
Amazing teacher! Who says you can’t teach soul
Brilliant explanation for a non drummer like me, I want to know how my partners in music do their thing. I like the way she says boom boom, too.
I was totally hanging on every word. Fantastic lesson.
Very thanks, teacher! It was clear like water.
thank you for this. Just learning drums and what an awesome teacher you are!!!!
Well described - pleased to say I learnt from this - Thank you
I grew up with the blues, so the count I am thinking of in a blues shuffle is -
1 ...a 2 .... a 3....a 4.....a etc.
My favorite shuffle variant is a bit of a fill, and I call it the "Muddy Waters Shuffle", named for this famous singing blues artist from Chicago...going like this -
1....a 2.....a 3....A 4 AND A ONE....a 2....a 3.....A 4 AND A One....a 2....a 3 (etc.)
"boom boom" !!forever in my drumming practice.!!
The most powerful and "heart-touching" lesson on the blues I´ve ever seen heard!
Why not foot playing both for “ boom boom “ ?
@@snarecat3441??
I am learning to play the shuffle on drums because I want to learn how to play jazz
Wonderful communicator, gorgeous as well. Thank you angel.
You are a great teacher. Praise God
Very good lesson and explanation! Thank you.
Fantastic lesson. Thank you.
muchas gracias por esta clase tan bien explicada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EXCELLENT! Loved it!
Its so nice to hear someone teach shuffles instead of chops all the time!!!
Thanks for sharing, very nice.
I like the idea and advise to embody the groove we learn to play. In Japanese drumming (taiko) one starts with "singing" or "talking" the groove even before touching the drums. They call it Kuchi Shoga. Every drum has his own sound: DON for the big ones, KA for the smaller one, etcetera. I realize now, thank you for that, that I can use this method for Western drumming too.....boom boom..boom boom...
Great presentation...benefited by your perspective....
this is so inspiring, thank you
Very nice explanation-very helpful...
Love this explanation
Thanks mom
This is a great tutorial for rock drummers too - they often don’t get the subtlety and hence can never do the boogie
Well explained and easy to understand. Thanks a bunch LaFrae! Do play Art Blakey´s Moaning but rather Swingish. Will try your version next time. Cheers!👍
Awesome!!!! she's not only teaching but transmitting the soul of the Blues. Great
this is great, thanks for sharing
thank you so much for that! I really appreciate how you broke it down. Now to those who think about criticizing his video I would remind them just remember where you came from and look back and recall how difficult it was to play drums in the beginning. People such as myself and that have disabilities with both hands appreciate these type of videos. But I agree with the other commentator. seem like female instructors have a way explaining things that you can understand and see. you don't sense that tension coming from a man with all the testosterone and the ego and all that BS in between. Sometime intimidating when a man is trying to instruct you. I guess that's why Adam in the Bible said that they are the mother of all living😉
If I could play and explain like her, I would not be ashamed. Wait, was that too on the nose? I was going for subtle Bible reference. Oh! I did it again"
I permanently altered my heartbeat rhythm.
Female drummers are super cool! Nice vid and good explanation ;)
perfect shuffle
Brilliant teacher! Wonderfully clear!
Good...really good.
Other than the solar plexus being a little lower than she pointed to, I loved this video. As drummers, we do need to feel more when playing and not just be a machine.
Thanks a lot! Good job :)
5:13 - the shuffle on the snare and the cymbal is a sort of a blast-beat type of shuffle, since the cymbal hits are the same number as the snare hits.
best explanation of the shuffle, by far on the interweb... no offense Purdie
Madam, I am very sorry! In the beginning of this video I really underestimated your lesson. Now I have to deeply apologize for my attitude. Your explanation is simply great and fantastic for s.o. who didn't GROW-UP with this 'feel'. Although I thought I'd mastered the technical side of this rhythm your video taught me to work on the 'FEEL' of this rhythm. Thank you!!!
BTW how do you pronounce your name?
Great!
thanks !!
Great lesson, but I really like that jacket. Where can I get one for my wife?
thanks!
I like this channel bit im always a bit disappointed we can't see the snare from upside and see the stick actually hitting it
I've had a love of Blakey since the 60s, he was my intro to better drumming. He is the ultimate beat maker and timekeeper. Thank you for this intro to a well-executed rhythm that is sometimes butchered.
One after my own heart. I played punk and metal for years and Blakey revealed a whole new world to me. Man was a goddamn clock.
Hello from kurikokaleidoscope. Great video. Have a happy day.
Wow... Are you the voice from the Rayzoon Jamstix videos?
nice!!!
That was pretty cool and informative and I can't play a damn thing.
please can you tell me what kit that is, and what sizes are they, and do you use a bass drum riser for the pedal , and what skins are you using thankyou
boom, boom, boom,boom,yeaaaaaah
Yeah, love a female drummer. So was that CLV, Detroit or Pittsburg at the end there?
If shuffle is boon boon, boon boon ... what would be left for samba?
I like your video but I would have liked it more if I could see your left hand hitting the snare drum
I can play a lot of stuff but would never be able to explain it or someone could explain it & I think... I didn't even know I was doing that ? stay in School !
Where did these bright red stage customs come from. I've only seen the cranberry red, that does not look as good as what she's playing. Yamaha What's Up?
Joseph Stultz maybe a custom spray they did themselves? It’s dope tho
What size high hats are you using ? There huge !
Boom boom I just broke my sternum 😜😂
Is this beat used in Jazz as well? I haven't heard it in say Big Band music.
Boom Boom Sauce
Swing!
Now I understand that enormous metal thing around her neck. If you are going to use a chest thumping technique like that, then I suppose good solid chainmail is a necessity for protection....
Midwest?
Didn’t listen to all of this but I didn’t hear anything about the train beat that’s where the shuffle group came from
i am going into cardiac arrest, i am willing my jazz kit to GOOD WILL, bye. ........ just kidding
What drumsticks are you using
My cardiologist advised me not to be pounding my solar plexus like that, it can cause or even dislodge dangerous blood clots.
This might be a CPR lesson too
Wow really?
Switch to the flute...:)
@@engleharddinglefester4285 I love the flute!
nlb jones you could tap it with one finger instead
I learned a little trick to tighten up the shuffle . It's triplet flam triplet flam with emphasis on two and four
i always felt shuffle was more of a swing
This Dude Actually Said shuffle is just swing but every quarter note had an “a” pickup in front
1+a2+a3+a4+a -subdivisions
1 a2 a3 a4 a -shuffle groove
1 2 a3 4 a -swing pattern
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