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**toolskid** · 30th August 2006, 05:27 PM

2. "Hidden Shuffles"

Heres a nice little 'time within time' lick! Its a little hard to explain in text but here goes.

Its a transposition of a group of fives into 4/4 sixteenths which when orchestrated around the drums in a specific fashion reveals a slow shuffle groove!

the sticking is RLLRL with R=ride/backbeat and L=snare or hat ghosting

i'll try and score it for ya! forgive the uneven matching of the top and bottom lines! The K indicates Kick and S indicates snare accent or backbeat! If theres any confusion with my dodgy diagram below: the kick and snare accent always land on a 'R'.

Enjoy, its cool when its swung too!! I like ghosting and accenting the toms in fills with the left hand + I sometimes use this in solos and am much more free with the orchestration and often substitute doubles and flams for the single stickings...

Its also freaky to go to these subdivisons when playing an actual shuffle part - sometimes in a solo context its fun to break out these flowing ghost notes on snare hat and toms around the main shuffle groove!

you can apply this to groups of seven and nine sixteenth notes with the same formula!!

30th August 2006, 05:27 PM	#2
toolskid Moderator Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: london Posts: 2,122	2. "Hidden Shuffles" Heres a nice little 'time within time' lick! Its a little hard to explain in text but here goes. Its a transposition of a group of fives into 4/4 sixteenths which when orchestrated around the drums in a specific fashion reveals a slow shuffle groove! the sticking is RLLRL with R=ride/backbeat and L=snare or hat ghosting i'll try and score it for ya! forgive the uneven matching of the top and bottom lines! The K indicates Kick and S indicates snare accent or backbeat! If theres any confusion with my dodgy diagram below: the kick and snare accent always land on a 'R'. Enjoy, its cool when its swung too!! I like ghosting and accenting the toms in fills with the left hand + I sometimes use this in solos and am much more free with the orchestration and often substitute doubles and flams for the single stickings... Its also freaky to go to these subdivisons when playing an actual shuffle part - sometimes in a solo context its fun to break out these flowing ghost notes on snare hat and toms around the main shuffle groove! you can apply this to groups of seven and nine sixteenth notes with the same formula!! Attached Thumbnails __________________ Emre Ramazanoglu http://www.emremusic.com the wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision the whole universe. The fool, however, will just lie down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go "Hey, I'm vine man"