The Purdie Shuffle Explanation and Breakdown for Drummers!

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April 13, 2024
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The Purdie Shuffle Explanation and Breakdown for Drummers!

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In this week’s Drums By Liz lesson, I demonstrate and explain how to play
the iconic “Purdie Shuffle”. As we know Bernard Purdie has contributed to multitudes of musical projects, songs and records. To this day Bernard is still the most recorded drummer out there. Bernard has contributed to over 4,000 records and worked with over 2,200 artists. That’s truly amazing! What a legacy and legend! Anytime I see an interview with Bernard, he is one cool cat. It’s also great how he has enriched the drumming community through his involvement with education doing clinics and such. Bernard is truly a big inspiration and in a class all his own!

I was going to re-film this post to try to shorten it up. My playing wasn’t exactly how I intended at times. I do not have time to edit because of a super busy jampacked schedule. So things maybe aren’t polished and perfect but it’s more about a teaching aspect and helping others. So please excuse my occasional flub ups.🤣🤣
The video ended up being a little lengthy because I go into a detailed explanation of what’s involved to foster consistency and retention.
This is a complex idea that needs attention to several technical aspects, one at a time. We don’t want to half learn something and have to repeatedly come back to these foundational characteristics that tend to hang up progress. The foundational aspects need to become routine, verbatim and very comfortable. They need to be properly set into our muscle memory.
Throughout my decades of teaching, I’ve learned to not overwhelm students with too many things all at once. I break things down into logical digestible parts, and then I help students learn how to string it all together.
As you see, this will lead to some ease of play with nice fluidity and flow. Once you get the feel of all that’s involved, it really does have a wave-like effect and feel to it. Quite unique and special!

Thank You Bernard Purdie!
You have changed the music and drumming world forever! 🥁⭐️💯❤️🙏🏻🤩🔥😎

I hope my detailed breakdown helps you gain better insight into the Purdie shuffle!

Thanks for tuning in to this week’s Drums by Liz lesson. Have a great week!

As Always,

Happy Drumming! 😊🥁⭐️💯🩵🙏🏻