Drum Lesson: Billy Ashbaugh - Standard Blues/Rock Shuffle

This lesson is your introduction the Basic Blues/Rock Shuffle. Hello welcome back again to the Drum Room. This is Billy Ashbaugh with Drummer and today we’re going to look at our first shuffle groove. I love shuffles because they involve triplets and anything involving triplets can tend to be a little tricky, especially in the beginning. So as we look at this groove the first thing you have to understand is how to count and feel a steady flow of 8th note triplets. Typically we count th