That song is a little fast for a one handed full on shuffle.
When I used to play along with the record it was quarter note city...
I think that the 140 is a low limit for one hand shuffles.
Jean Paul Gaster in this clip, he mixes full shuffle and quarter note pulse and permute from both cities, but what a drive ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91-cIwjyyn4
See, here's where the confusion, for me, starts. I think that 140 is just about reaching the high limit for comfortably playing the shuffle beat and keeping the shuffling, swinging feel. Above that and you're approaching jump blues territory, the two-beat feel. "Face the Face" is that tempo. "Got My Mojo Working" is that tempo.
I guess this is all about semantics, isn't it?
Semantics, yes. Mojo isn't even a shuffle it's either a straight 2/4 or a straight train beat, at least that's how Muddy does it, right? To me a shuffle is any song that uses the shuffle pattern on something, be it snare, kick, hi hat or ride, and any combinations of those, front to back. I even consider a song a shuffle if the bass player is holding the shuffle pattern down while the drummer plays unison quarters on the kick and ride and halves on the snare. If it's got a nonstop shuffle feel, it's a shuffle in my mind no matter what the tempo it is or who holds the shuffle pattern down. It's not really that well defined and open to a lot of interpretation.
Check out meytal's technique when she covered of santeria. notice she's very relaxed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYONd3X4tjI
Check out meytal's technique when she covered of santeria. notice she's very relaxed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYONd3X4tjI
Please explain how you figure this is a shuffle?
To be totally honest - if I DIDN'T know the shuffle, I don't think I would be working much at all. I am kind of surprised that a lot of drummers don't do these much.
I don't think it's as much about not knowing the shuffle, as it is about being able to perfect your feel while playing it, and then translating that same feel to higher tempos. It isn't hard for me, personally, to really feel that shuffle chugging along. And I could feel it well before I recognized the terminology that expressed it, but playing it fast and clean has always been somewhat of a challenge for me...just need more practice.
Santeria is definitely a half-time shuffle - like 8mile said - it's more or less Rosanna- sped up. Maybe some people don't think it's a shuffle because the music itself is not playing in swing time. The drumbeat itself is playing a shuffle superimposed over the music playing 4/4 time. You don't hear that a whole lot.
There are almost as many shuffle feels as there are rock feels and they are in all genres of music. Its important to get a grasp of them.
For me, my shuffle didn't get good until I went through Progressive Independence: Jazz book by Ron Spagnardi. For me, it's really gave me a better understanding of the swing feel and sank into my shuffle playing. Huge difference.
To be totally honest - if I DIDN'T know the shuffle, I don't think I would be working much at all. I am kind of surprised that a lot of drummers don't do these much. I guess if all you listen too is speed dugga dugga dugga metal all the time, you wouldnt hear the shuffle at all.
One way too get the feel of it is listen to music that has it. I listen to a lot of genres of music (yes including speed metal) and the shuffle is in almost all of it I listen too.
The half-time and Purdy variations just add the ghost notes in interesting places to fill out the triplet, no?